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11-letter words containing u, b, a

  • round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
  • royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
  • rubber band — a narrow, circular or oblong band of rubber, used for holding things together, as papers or a box and its lid.
  • rubber game — any game played to break a tie resulting when each side has won the same number of games
  • rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
  • rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rumble seat — Also called, British, dickey. a seat recessed into the back of a coupe or roadster, covered by a hinged lid that opens to form the back of the seat when in use.
  • rumbustical — rumbustious
  • runnability — to move with haste; act quickly: Run upstairs and get the iodine.
  • runner bean — string bean (defs 1, 2).
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
  • saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
  • sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
  • sauce bercy — Bercy.
  • sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
  • saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
  • scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
  • scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
  • scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
  • sea biscuit — ship biscuit; hardtack.
  • sea blubber — a large jellyfish, Cyanea capillata.
  • shabu-shabu — a Japanese dish of thinly sliced meat and vegetables boiled quickly in broth and served with various dipping sauces.
  • shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
  • shea butter — a solid, greenish, yellowish, or whitish fat derived from the seeds of the shea tree, used for food and in the manufacture of soaps and candles.
  • sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
  • slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
  • soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
  • soap-bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
  • social club — A social club is a club where members go in order to meet each other and enjoy leisure activities.
  • soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
  • somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
  • staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
  • stamp album — a book used by collectors of postage stamps to display and store their stamps
  • statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
  • static tube — a tube for measuring the static pressure of a fluid in motion, so placed in the fluid as not to be affected by the pressure changes caused by the motion of the fluid.
  • sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
  • sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
  • sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • sub-clauses — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
  • sub-company — subsidiary company.
  • sub-fascial — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
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