11-letter words containing u, n, b, s
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- nucleobases — Plural form of nucleobase.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- number keys — keypad
- number sign — a symbol (#) for “number” or “numbered”: item #8 on the list.
- numbskulled — (informal) stupid.
- nursing bra — a bra for breastfeeding mothers which provides additional support and has cups that can be folded down so the infant can be fed without the mother having to remove the bra
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obliqueness — The characteristic of being oblique.
- obnoxiously — In an obnoxious manner.
- obscuration — the act of obscuring.
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- obscureness — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obstructing — Present participle of obstruct.
- obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- obviousness — The characteristic of being obvious.
- ombrogenous — (of plants) able to flourish in wet conditions
- ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
- ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
- parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- publishment — publication.
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- 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.
- rubbish bin — trash can
- ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
- 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
- shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
- sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
- 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
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- stop button — (on a DVD player, cassette recorder, etc) the off switch