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11-letter words containing u, n, d, e

  • bent double — If someone is bent double, the top part of their body is leaning forward towards their legs, usually because they are in great pain or because they are laughing a lot. In American English, you can also say that someone is bent over double.
  • bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
  • binucleated — having two nuclei
  • bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
  • blue-jeaned — wearing blue jeans.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  • blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
  • boumedienne — Houari (ˈhaʊərɪ). 1927–78, Algerian statesman and soldier: president of Algeria (1965–78) after overthrowing Ben Bella in a coup
  • boundedness — the quality of being bounded
  • brandenburg — a state in NE Germany, part of East Germany until 1990. A former electorate, it expanded under the Hohenzollerns to become the kingdom of Prussia (1701). The district east of the Oder River became Polish in 1945. Capital: Potsdam. Pop: 2 575 000 (2003 est). Area: 29 481 sq km (11 219 sq miles)
  • broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • buckskinned — made of buckskin
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • buenos dias — good day; good morning
  • buffer fund — money put aside to help alleviate the adverse short-term effects of something
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bull-necked — having a short thick neck
  • bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
  • but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
  • butenedioic — designating a type of acid
  • buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
  • buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
  • calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
  • candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
  • candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
  • census data — the data generated by an official census
  • centrifuged — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
  • changeround — the process of changing position
  • chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
  • cleaned out — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
  • clear round — an instance of a horse and rider clearing all barriers without making any mistakes
  • close round — to encircle; surround
  • cnidogenous — producing or containing nematocysts.
  • coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.
  • code number — a number used to identify something
  • coeducation — instruction in schools, colleges, etc, attended by both sexes
  • columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
  • come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
  • compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
  • compendiums — Plural form of compendium.
  • concludable — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
  • conducement — the action or quality of conducing
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