12-letter words containing b, e, o, n
- renounceable — of a nature that can be renounced
- reset button — control that restores a default setting
- resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
- revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
- reverse snob — a person overly proud of being one of or sympathetic to the common people, and who denigrates or shuns those of superior ability, education, social standing, etc.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rhombohedron — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- ribbon cable — (hardware) A type of flat multicore cable with cores positioned side-by-side, making it quick and relatively easy to clamp an Insulation Displacement Connector (IDC) across all cores. Ribbon cables typically have grey insulation with cores on a 0.050" pitch and a red stripe marking Pin 1. They are less resilient than screened, multicore cable and are usually used inside equipment where little movement or plugging and unplugging are expected. A common use is connecting a disk drive to the motherboard in a PC.
- ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- robber baron — History/Historical. a noble who robbed travelers passing through his lands.
- roller blind — a blind consisting of a length of fabric rolled around a pole and fitted to the top of a window
- san bernardo — a city in central Chile, S of Santiago.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
- scent bottle — a bottle of perfume
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- section boss — the boss of a section gang.
- 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
- sino-tibetan — a family of languages including especially Burmese, Tibetan, and the various local languages and dialects whose speakers share literary Chinese as their standard language.
- skeleton bob — a small sledge for racing over a frozen track, steered by the rider by movements of the head and shoulders
- slobbishness — the state or characteristic of being a slob
- snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
- snout beetle — weevil (def 1).
- sober-minded — rational; sensible.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- stephen jobs — (person) Stephen P. Jobs (born 24 February 1955). The co-founder and ex-president of Apple Computer, leader of the team that produced the Macintosh. In 1979, when he was president of Apple, Steven Jobs saw a demonstration of Smalltalk at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He and other Apple employees were "very impressed with the unique and revolutionary user-friendly design". The first Macintosh was released in January 1984. Jobs described it as insanely great. Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded Next, Inc.. In December 1996 he was re-employed by Apple when they bought NeXT. See also lithium lick, Mathematica.
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- strobe tuner — an electronic instrument tuner that uses stroboscopic light
- stubbornness — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- student body — all the students enrolled at an educational institution.
- stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- subcomponent — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- subcontinent — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
- subcutaneous — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.