11-letter words containing u, n, b, s
- boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
- boss around — order about
- boston bull — Boston terrier
- boundedness — the quality of being bounded
- bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
- brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
- branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
- brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
- brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
- brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
- brusqueness — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
- buckskinned — made of buckskin
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- bulbousness — the quality of being bulbous
- bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- bunyanesque — of immense size or stature, as ascribed to Paul Bunyan or to the other characters, exploits, etc., in the legends about him.
- buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- burne-jones — Sir Edward. 1833–98, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer of stained-glass windows and tapestries
- burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- burnt sugar — caramel
- burrowstown — a burgh town
- bus network — (networking) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
- bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
- bushbashing — the process of forcing a path through the bush
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- bushranging — the life of a bushranger
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- businessman — A businessman is a man who works in business.
- businessmen — a man regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
- busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
- button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
- chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar
- club fungus — basidiomycete
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club