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11-letter words containing a, b, u, r

  • objurgative — That objurgates; sharply disapproving.
  • objurgatory — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
  • obscuration — the act of obscuring.
  • obumbration — the action of making dim, dark, obfuscated, or eclipsed
  • opera buffa — an Italian farcical comic opera originating in the 18th century and containing recitativo secco, patter songs, and ensemble finales.
  • orbicularis — a muscle surrounding an opening
  • orbicularly — In an orbicular fashion.
  • order about — to bully or domineer
  • ouija board — board used by spiritualists
  • outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
  • outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
  • paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • para rubber — India rubber obtained from the tree Hevea brasiliensis, of the spurge family, and other species of the same genus of tropical South America.
  • parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • pastry tube — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
  • perambulate — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perpetuable — able to be perpetuated
  • persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
  • persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
  • perturbable — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
  • politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
  • preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory
  • preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
  • prepubertal — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
  • presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
  • produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
  • protuberate — to bulge out, forming a rounded projection.
  • prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • purchasable — capable of being bought.
  • quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
  • quarter bar — a strut for bracing the central post of a windmill.
  • quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quatre bras — a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.
  • quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
  • rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
  • racquetball — a game similar to handball, played on a four-walled court but with a short-handled, strung racket and a larger, somewhat softer ball.
  • rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
  • rambus dram — (storage)   (RDRAM) A high bandwidth DRAM, designed by Rambus, Inc. of Mountain View, CA. RDRAM is used mainly for video accelerators, and also in the Ultra 64 from Nintendo. It offers sustained transfer rates of around 1000 Mbps, compared to 200 Mbps for ordinary DRAM. Although it cannot be used as a direct replacement for existing memory, it is likely that it will replace DRAM and SDRAM as the main memory system in personal computers as the bus speeds required by these machines increase. SDRAM can operate up to around 100MHz, but RDRAM has been demonstrated by the manufacturers running at 600MHz. The memory is also only 8 or 9 bits wide, so the bandwidth would increase enormously if it were used in parallel to give 32 or 64-bit memory.
  • 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.
  • rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
  • real number — a rational number or the limit of a sequence of rational numbers, as opposed to a complex number.
  • rear bumper — the bar at the back of a vehicle which protects it if it bumps into something
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