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11-letter words containing u, n, b, o, l

  • construable — that can be construed
  • consumables — goods intended to be bought, used, and replaced, esp materials needed for computers and photocopiers
  • 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.
  • contubernal — occupying the same tent
  • convulsible — capable of becoming intensely agitated
  • cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
  • counterblow — a retaliatory blow
  • cumulonimbi — Plural form of cumulonimbus.
  • cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
  • cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
  • cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
  • demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
  • double bind — Psychology. a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues, especially by a parent, such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other.
  • 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.
  • ebullitions — Plural form of ebullition.
  • fantabulous — extremely fine or desirable; excellent; wonderful.
  • floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
  • furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
  • 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 ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
  • hold button — a button on a telephone that enables someone to interrupt an incoming call temporarily in order to answer another call.
  • indigo blue — indigo (def 4).
  • indubiously — Synonym of without a doubt.
  • isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
  • journal box — a box or housing for a journal and its bearing.
  • knucklebone — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
  • labor union — an organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers; trade union.
  • 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.
  • lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
  • lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
  • lumbaginous — relating to, or suffering from, lumbago
  • lunar orbit — path or movement of the moon around the earth
  • melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
  • 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.
  • monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
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