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11-letter words containing u, n, e

  • buffer fund — money put aside to help alleviate the adverse short-term effects of something
  • buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
  • buffet line — A buffet line is a selection of food that is displayed on a long table. Guests usually serve themselves.
  • bulbousness — the quality of being bulbous
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
  • bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
  • bull-necked — having a short thick neck
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • 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.
  • bungee jump — a jump made by someone from a high bridge, building, etc, secured only by a rubber cord attached to the ankles
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
  • 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
  • bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
  • burkburnett — a town in N Texas.
  • burn center — a specialized medical facility that provides comprehensive care for patients with burn injuries.
  • 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
  • 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 umber — a brown pigment obtained by heating umber
  • 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.
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • 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.
  • 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
  • butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
  • button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
  • button tree — any of a genus (Conocarpus) of dicotyledonous West Indian trees with buttonlike fruit
  • button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • 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.
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • calcineurin — (enzyme) A protein phosphatase that stimulates the growth and differentiation of T cells.
  • call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
  • callousness — made hard; hardened.
  • calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
  • calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
  • campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
  • can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
  • cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
  • cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
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