11-letter words containing u, n, b, o, e
- double bond — a chemical linkage consisting of two covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by two lines, two dots, or four dots, as CH 2 =CH 2 ; CH 2 :CH 2 ; CH 2 ::CH 2 .
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
- double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
- double-hung — (of a window) having two vertically sliding sashes, each closing a different part of the opening.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- dubiousness — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- dumbed down — (jargon) Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- ebullitions — Plural form of ebullition.
- fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
- fine bouche — a refined taste; educated palate.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- gauge boson — a boson that mediates the interaction between elementary particles. There are several types: photons for electromagnetic interactions, W and Z intermediate vector bosons for weak interactions, and gravitons for gravitational interactions
- gibbousness — The quality of being gibbous.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- immune body — antibody
- indigo blue — indigo (def 4).
- inobtrusive — unobtrusive.
- isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
- knucklebone — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- locust bean — carob.
- lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- minute book — a book in which the minutes of a meeting are recorded
- mobile unit — a vehicle supplied with the basic equipment or materials necessary for a particular purpose, as for televising on location or being used as an x-ray or inoculation clinic.
- molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.