11-letter words containing u, b, a
- presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- protuberate — to bulge out, forming a rounded projection.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- public gaze — If someone or something is in the public gaze, they are receiving a lot of attention from the general public.
- public sale — auction (def 1).
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- publishable — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- pukka sahib — (in British India) a term of respectful address used to British colonial authorities.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
- quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
- qualifiable — capable of being qualified: qualifiable statements.
- quantum bit — the fundamental unit of information in a quantum computer, capable of existing in two states, 0 or 1, simultaneously or at a different time.
- quarter bar — a strut for bracing the central post of a windmill.
- quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- quatre bras — a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.
- quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
- quite a bit — a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
- quotability — The degree to which a person, literature, or a speech is useful or relevant for being quoted.
- rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
- racquetball — a game similar to handball, played on a four-walled court but with a short-handled, strung racket and a larger, somewhat softer ball.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- rambus dram — (storage) (RDRAM) A high bandwidth DRAM, designed by Rambus, Inc. of Mountain View, CA. RDRAM is used mainly for video accelerators, and also in the Ultra 64 from Nintendo. It offers sustained transfer rates of around 1000 Mbps, compared to 200 Mbps for ordinary DRAM. Although it cannot be used as a direct replacement for existing memory, it is likely that it will replace DRAM and SDRAM as the main memory system in personal computers as the bus speeds required by these machines increase. SDRAM can operate up to around 100MHz, but RDRAM has been demonstrated by the manufacturers running at 600MHz. The memory is also only 8 or 9 bits wide, so the bandwidth would increase enormously if it were used in parallel to give 32 or 64-bit memory.
- raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
- rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
- real number — a rational number or the limit of a sequence of rational numbers, as opposed to a complex number.
- rear bumper — the bar at the back of a vehicle which protects it if it bumps into something
- reattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- rebuildable — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- recarburize — to add carbon to (steel), as in an open-hearth furnace, as by adding pig iron.
- recruitable — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- recuperable — capable of recuperation
- redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
- refuellable — capable of being refuelled
- relubricate — to lubricate again or with new lubricant
- remunerable — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
- res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
- retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.
- reusability — reuse
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhesus baby — a baby suffering from haemolytic disease at birth as its red blood cells (which are Rh positive) have been attacked in the womb by antibodies from its Rh negative mother
- right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- ring nebula — a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra that has a ringlike appearance surrounding its central star.
- ritual bath — a mikvah.
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.