11-letter words containing u, n, b, i
- obliqueness — The characteristic of being oblique.
- obnoxiously — In an obnoxious manner.
- obscuration — the act of obscuring.
- obstructing — Present participle of obstruct.
- obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- obumbration — the action of making dim, dark, obfuscated, or eclipsed
- obviousness — The characteristic of being obvious.
- oil-burning — that uses paraffin, esp as a domestic fuel
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- outbuilding — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
- pouring box — tundish (def 2).
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- publishment — publication.
- pudibundity — prudery
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
- 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.
- retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
- ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
- ring nebula — a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra that has a ringlike appearance surrounding its central star.
- round-robin — a sequence or series.
- rowing club — rowboat association
- rubber ring — an air-filled ring made of rubber, used as a swimming aid
- rubbish bin — trash can
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
- rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- runnability — to move with haste; act quickly: Run upstairs and get the iodine.
- rus in urbe — the country in the town
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins