11-letter words containing u, n, b, r
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
- cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
- counterbase — a double bass
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- counterblow — a retaliatory blow
- counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
- counterbore — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
- crab nebula — the expanding remnant of the supernova observed in 1054 ad, lying in the constellation Taurus at an approximate distance of 6500 light years
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- currant bun — a sweet bun containing currants
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- debt burden — A debt burden is a large amount of money that one country or organization owes to another and which they find very difficult to repay.
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- disburdened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburden.
- disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- distribuend — something that is distributed
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doxorubicin — a cytotoxic antibiotic, C 27 H 29 NO 11 , derived from a variety of the bacterium Streptomyces peucetius and used in the treatment of sarcoma, malignant lymphoma, acute leukemia, and other cancers.
- drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- durableness — Durability.
- encumbering — Present participle of encumber.
- encumbrance — A burden or impediment.
- entablature — A horizontal, continuous lintel on a classical building supported by columns or a wall, comprising the architrave, frieze, and cornice.
- equilibrant — a force capable of balancing another force and producing equilibrium
- erubescence — the process of growing red or a condition of redness
- exuberantly — In an exuberant manner.
- exuberating — Present participle of exuberate.
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- gaberlunzie — a wandering beggar
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.