12-letter words containing a, n, e, r, o, b
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
- marine borer — any mollusc or crustacean that lives usually in warm seas and destroys wood by boring into and eating it. The gribble and shipworm are the best known since they penetrate any wood in favourable water
- melon baller — a small cooking utensil with a handle and a rounded scoop, which you insert into a melon and twist to extract a ball of flesh
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- montebrasite — a mineral, lithium aluminum hydroxyl phosphate, LiAlPO 4 (OH), isomorphous with amblygonite, used as an ore of lithium.
- monterey bay — an inlet of the Pacific in W California. 26 miles (42 km) long.
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- neoliberally — In a neoliberal manner.
- neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
- neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- non-erasable — to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- non-operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
- non-readable — unreadable.
- non-reliable — that may be relied on or trusted; dependable in achievement, accuracy, honesty, etc.: reliable information.
- non-variable — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- nonabsorbent — Not absorbent; unable to absorb.
- nonbacterial — Not bacterial.
- nonbreaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
- nonbreathing — not breathing
- noncarbonate — That which is not a carbonate.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nonheritable — Not heritable.
- nonobservant — Not observant; not religious; not participating in the observance of religion.
- nonpermeable — capable of being permeated.
- nonremovable — that may be removed.
- nonrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- nonrepayable — that does not need to be or cannot be repaid
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- normalizable — That can be normalized.
- not-a-number — (mathematics) (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
- note verbale — a diplomatic communication prepared in the third person and unsigned: less formal than a note but more formal than an aide-mémoire.
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- obedientiary — The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
- obliterating — Present participle of obliterate.
- obliteration — the act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated.
- observations — Plural form of observation.
- obstetrician — a physician who specializes in obstetrics. Abbreviation: OB, ob.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.