11-letter words containing a, n, t, b
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- objectional — Objectionable.
- objurgating — Present participle of objurgate.
- objurgation — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- obligations — Plural form of obligation.
- obliquation — the fact or process of veering or moving in an oblique or slantwise direction
- obliviation — Total removal or erasure.
- obscuration — the act of obscuring.
- obsecration — to entreat solemnly; beseech; supplicate.
- observantly — quick to notice or perceive; alert.
- observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
- obsignation — the action or process of certifying by means of, or as if with, a seal or a mark of ratification
- obsignatory — (obsolete) Ratifying; confirming by sealing.
- obstinately — firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
- obstipation — obstinate constipation.
- obtestation — The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation.
- obumbration — the action of making dim, dark, obfuscated, or eclipsed
- odontoblast — one of a layer of cells lining the pulp cavity of a tooth, from which dentin is formed.
- on stand-by — in a state of readiness for action or use
- on the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- on the beam — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
- on the beat — A police officer on the beat is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible.
- on the bias — A dress or skirt that is cut on the bias or that is bias-cut has been cut diagonally across the material so that it hangs down in a particular way.
- openability — The quality of being openable.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
- paleobotany — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil plants.
- 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.
- pinot blanc — any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- pipe batten — batten2 (def 5a).
- plane table — a surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board mounted on adjustable legs, and used in the field for plotting measurements directly
- plane-table — a drawing board mounted on a tripod, used in the field, with an alidade, for surveying tracts of land.
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
- potableness — the quality of being potable or drinkable
- potato bean — groundnut (def 1).
- prelibation — a foretaste.
- presentable — that may be presented.
- preventable — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- proabortion — pro-choice.
- probational — the act of testing.
- probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
- 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.
- quantum bit — the fundamental unit of information in a quantum computer, capable of existing in two states, 0 or 1, simultaneously or at a different time.