11-letter words containing a, b, n, o, r
- forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- hash browns — fried potato cake
- header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
- heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
- heaven-born — of or as of heavenly origin: the heaven-born gods.
- hereinabove — before in this document, statement, etc.
- hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hyperborean — Classical Mythology. one of a people supposed to live in a land of perpetual sunshine and abundance beyond the north wind.
- ibn gabirol — Arabic name of Avicebrón.
- ibn-gabirol — Solomon. ?1021–?58, Jewish philosopher and poet, born in Spain. His work The Fountain of Life influenced Western medieval philosophers
- imbrication — an overlapping, as of tiles or shingles.
- improbation — the act of disapproving or objecting to something
- inebriation — to make drunk; intoxicate.
- inelaborate — Not elaborate; crude; unfinished.
- inobservant — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- interrobang — a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
- intolerable — not tolerable; unendurable; insufferable: intolerable pain.
- intolerably — not tolerable; unendurable; insufferable: intolerable pain.
- ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
- isoabnormal — isabnormal.
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- journal box — a box or housing for a journal and its bearing.
- katabothron — an underground channel created by water erosion
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- labor pains — childbirth: contractions
- labor union — an organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers; trade union.