11-letter words containing a, b, o, n, e
- overbalance — to outweigh: The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
- overbearing — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
- overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
- paleobotany — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil plants.
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- penalty box — an enclosed space adjacent to the rink for penalized players, the penalty timekeeper, the game timekeeper, and the official scorer.
- pensionable — worker: of retirement age
- pineal body — (formerly) the pineal gland.
- poison bean — Also called bladderpod. a tall plant, Glottidium vesicaria, of the legume family, native to the southeastern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers and pods containing highly poisonous seeds.
- potableness — the quality of being potable or drinkable
- potato bean — groundnut (def 1).
- power brand — a brand of product that is a household name associated with a successful company
- preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- prelibation — a foretaste.
- press baron — an influential newspaper publisher or owner who usually controls more than one widely circulated newspaper.
- probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
- prolongable — able to be lengthened
- prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
- recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
- reprobation — disapproval, condemnation, or censure.
- revibration — the act of vibrating.
- rex begonia — a plant, Begonia rex, native to India, having wrinkled, variegated leaves and thick, hairy stems, and cultivated in many varieties.
- robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- robot plane — an unmanned plane
- rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
- 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.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- second base — the second in order of the bases from home plate.
- shacklebone — the wrist
- snob appeal — the attributes of something that appeal to people who associate those qualities with social or intellectual superiority; a thing's attractiveness to snobs.
- snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
- sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
- spoon bread — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- store brand — an item offered for sale under a store's own label.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subitaneous — sudden
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- superabound — to abound beyond something else.
- tabefaction — the process of tabefying
- table money — an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army
- terebration — the action of drilling or puncturing