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11-letter words containing u, n, o, b, t

  • outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
  • outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
  • outbuilding — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
  • outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
  • outnumbered — to exceed in number.
  • overburthen — to overburden
  • plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
  • pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
  • port number — port
  • pouncet box — a small perfume box with a perforated lid.
  • protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
  • publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
  • push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
  • pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
  • retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
  • round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
  • stop button — (on a DVD player, cassette recorder, etc) the off switch
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
  • subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
  • subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
  • subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
  • subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • subitaneous — sudden
  • subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • subjunction — an act of subjoining.
  • sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
  • submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target
  • subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
  • subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
  • subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
  • subrational — less than or almost rational.
  • subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • subsumption — an act of subsuming.
  • subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
  • thingumabob — thingamajig.
  • thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
  • thumbs down — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
  • thumbs-down — an act or instance of dissent, disapproval, etc.
  • thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
  • ton-up boys — youths who habitually ride or drive a vehicle at speeds of a hundred miles per hour or more
  • tourbillion — a whirlwind or something resembling a whirlwind.
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