12-letter words containing b, a, r, i, o
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- ride a hobby — to be excessively devoted to one's favorite pastime or subject
- robotization — the introduction of robots to carry out industrial tasks
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
- saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- semiarboreal — (of animals) spending half or some of their life in trees
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- six-yard box — On a football pitch, the six-yard box is the rectangular area marked in front of the goal.
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- south arabia — Protectorate of, a former protectorate of Great Britain in S Arabia, now part of the Republic of Yemen.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
- stabilizator — a stabilizer
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- strobilation — asexual reproduction by division into segments, as in tapeworms and jellyfishes
- sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- subarcuation — a structure that is somewhat arched
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- suborbicular — nearly circular or orblike
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subordinator — a conjunction introducing a subordinate clause, as when in They were glad when I finished.
- substraction — the act or process of subtracting
- supraorbital — situated above the eye socket.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- teratophobia — fear of giving birth to a monster
- thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).
- thiobacteria — bacteria found esp. in stagnant water and at the bottom of the sea, that oxidize or reduce sulfur compounds, as hydrogen sulfide
- timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.