11-letter words containing b, i, l, r, o
- portability — the state or quality of being portable.
- postorbital — located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.
- pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- prelibation — a foretaste.
- premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
- probabilism — Philosophy. the doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
- probability — the quality or fact of being probable.
- probational — the act of testing.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- processible — capable of being processed.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- protectible — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- public room — a lounge or other room that is open to all, especially in a hotel or on a ship.
- rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
- rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- reform bill — any of the bills passed by Parliament (1832, 1867, 1884) providing for an increase in the number of voters in elections for the House of Commons, especially the bill of 1832 by which many rotten boroughs were disfranchised.
- responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
- roadability — the ability of a motor vehicle to maintain a steady, balanced, and comfortable ride, especially under a variety of road conditions.
- robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- robot pilot — automatic pilot.
- robotically — in a robotic manner
- roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
- rowing club — rowboat association
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- sailboarder — windsurfer
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- silver book — (publication) Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
- soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
- soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- stilbestrol — a nonsteroidal synthetic estrogen, C 18 H 20 O 2 , used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and in animal feeds for chemical caponization: formerly used during pregnancy for the prevention of miscarriage but discontinued owing to its association with an increased risk of vaginal and cervical cancers in women having had fetal exposure. Abbreviation: DES.
- storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- sublittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom between the littoral and bathyal zones, from the low water line to the edge of the continental shelf, or to a depth of approximately 660 feet (200 meters).
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- taurobolium — the sacrifice of a bull, followed by the baptism of neophytes in the blood, as practiced in the ancient rites of Mithras or Cybele.
- timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.