12-letter words containing b, e, r, i, o, n
- 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
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
- montebrasite — a mineral, lithium aluminum hydroxyl phosphate, LiAlPO 4 (OH), isomorphous with amblygonite, used as an ore of lithium.
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- neighborhood — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
- neighbouring — (British, Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
- neoliberally — In a neoliberal manner.
- neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
- neoytterbium — ytterbium.
- neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- nigger brown — a dark brown colour
- nitrobenzene — a pale yellow, toxic, water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 5 NO 2 , produced by nitrating benzene with nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of aniline.
- nobel prizes — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
- non-credible — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.
- 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-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.
- nonbacterial — Not bacterial.
- nonbelievers — Plural form of nonbeliever.
- nonbreaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- nonbreathing — not breathing
- noncelebrity — a person who is not a celebrity
- nonforbidden — Unforbidden.
- nonheritable — Not heritable.
- normalizable — That can be normalized.
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- obedientiary — The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
- objecteering — (programming, tool) An object-oriented design tool from Softeam, based on the Class Relation Methodology, with C++ code generation.
- 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.
- olefin fiber — any of a group of synthetic textile fibers, as Herculon, formed from long-chain polymers no less than 85 percent ethylene, propylene, or other olefin units.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- on the brain — constantly in mind
- on your bike — away you go
- orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- overbrimming — Present participle of overbrim.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.