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11-letter words containing u, n, b, r

  • outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
  • outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
  • outnumbered — to exceed in number.
  • overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
  • overburthen — to overburden
  • overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
  • paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
  • perturbment — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • port number — port
  • pouring box — tundish (def 2).
  • powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
  • prenumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
  • queensberry — John Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquis of, 1844–1900, Scottish nobleman and sponsor of modern boxing rules.
  • raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
  • real number — a rational number or the limit of a sequence of rational numbers, as opposed to a complex number.
  • remunerable — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
  • retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
  • return bend — a 180° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
  • 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 about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round-robin — a sequence or series.
  • 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.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • rubber band — a narrow, circular or oblong band of rubber, used for holding things together, as papers or a box and its lid.
  • 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.
  • runner bean — string bean (defs 1, 2).
  • rus in urbe — the country in the town
  • 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
  • sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
  • 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.
  • scrub nurse — a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.
  • scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
  • slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
  • 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
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