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11-letter words containing b, i, n, g, o

  • omnibearing — the magnetic bearing of an omnirange station.
  • organizable — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
  • outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
  • outbuilding — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
  • overbearing — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
  • overbetting — the activity or practice of betting more than the usual or permitted amount
  • overbidding — Present participle of overbid.
  • overblowing — A technique for playing a wind instrument so as to produce overtones.
  • overbooking — Present participle of overbook.
  • overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
  • packing box — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • pig boiling — wet puddling.
  • pouring box — tundish (def 2).
  • preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
  • quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
  • raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
  • rex begonia — a plant, Begonia rex, native to India, having wrinkled, variegated leaves and thick, hairy stems, and cultivated in many varieties.
  • riding boot — a knee-high boot of black or brown leather, without fastenings, forming part of a riding habit.
  • robing room — a room in a palace, court, legislature, etc, where official robes of office are put on
  • rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
  • rowing boat — rowboat.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • signal book — a book containing the signals to be used for sending messages to other boats
  • single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
  • smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
  • snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
  • 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.
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
  • subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
  • subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • symbolizing — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
  • thingamabob — thingamajig.
  • thingumabob — thingamajig.
  • tombstoning — the activity of diving off cliffs into the sea
  • top billing — the first or most prominent position in a list of actors or entertainers, as on a marquee or screen.
  • troglobiont — any creature having a cave-dwelling mode of life.
  • tuning knob — a knob or dial on a radio used to tune into different stations
  • unambiguous — not ambiguous, or unclear; distinct; unequivocal: The object of the experiment was to reach an unambiguous conclusion about climate change.
  • unbelonging — something that belongs.
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