11-letter words containing s, c, r, u, b
- control bus — (architecture) In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- counterbase — a double bass
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- course book — A course book is a textbook that students and teachers use as the basis of a course.
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- crab cactus — Christmas cactus
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- cybersurfer — A person who surfs (browses the Internet).
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- erubescence — the process of growing red or a condition of redness
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- inscrutably — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- irrecusable — not to be objected to or rejected.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- lumbosacral — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- lumbricalis — lumbrical.
- microbursts — Plural form of microburst.
- mussel crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres maculatus, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of mussels.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- obfuscatory — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obscuration — the act of obscuring.
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- obscureness — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obscurities — Plural form of obscurity.
- obstructing — Present participle of obstruct.
- obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- obstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- orbicularis — a muscle surrounding an opening
- presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
- presbycusis — the gradual loss of acute hearing with advancing age
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
- resubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- rumbustical — rumbustious
- rust bucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- sauce bercy — Bercy.
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch