11-letter words containing u, n, e
- autozeroing — (electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
- auxanometer — an instrument that measures the linear growth of plant shoots
- averruncate — to avert, to turn away
- back burner — If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important.
- back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
- back-burner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- baconburger — a hamburger topped with strips of cooked bacon.
- balance lug — a lugsail having a portion of its area forward of the mast and having a long foot, often with a boom.
- balance out — If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
- balefulness — The characteristic of being baleful.
- bancassurer — a bank that sells insurance products
- banefulness — The state or quality of being baneful.
- banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
- bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
- barn-burner — Informal. something that is highly exciting, impressive, etc.: The All Stars game was a real barnburner.
- baroqueness — The state or condition of being baroque.
- barquentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
- base runner — any member of the team at bat who has reached first, second, or third base safely or is trying to reach a base or home plate
- baserunning — the act of running around bases
- bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
- bateau neck — boat neck.
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
- baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
- be laughing — to be in a favourable situation
- be quids in — If you are quids in, you have more money left than you expected or get more for your money than you expected.
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beanbag gun — a gun that fires a fabric bag containing lead shot, designed to stun or knock the target to the ground
- beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- beckenbauer — Franz. born 1945, German footballer: team captain when West Germany won the World Cup (1974): manager of West Germany (1984–90), coaching the team to success in the 1990 World Cup
- bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
- bedding out — the process of planting out young flowering plants in beds
- been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
- beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
- belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
- bellfounder — a foundry worker who casts bells
- bellybutton — the navel
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- belowground — underground
- ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
- bend double — When you bend double, you bend the top half of your body downwards a long way.
- 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.
- benue-congo — a branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages, consisting of the Bantu languages together with certain other languages of W Africa
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
- beurre noir — a sauce of darkly browned butter, sometimes flavored with herbs, vinegar, etc.
- bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)