11-letter words containing b, i, r, d, o
- radiocarbon — Also called carbon 14. a radioactive isotope of carbon with mass number 14 and a half-life of about 5730 years: widely used in the dating of organic materials.
- raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
- redhibition — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- redhibitory — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- review body — an organization sponsored by the government to make independent recommendations
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- riding boot — a knee-high boot of black or brown leather, without fastenings, forming part of a riding habit.
- road bridge — a bridge for road traffic
- 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.
- rock-ribbed — having ribs or ridges of rock: the rock-ribbed coast of Maine.
- rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
- roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
- root bridge — (communications, hardware, networking) A bridge which continuously transmits network topology information to other bridges, using the spanning tree protocol, in order to notify all other bridges on the network when topology changes are required. This means that a network is able to reconfigure itself whenever a network link (e.g. another bridge) fails, so an alternative path can be found. The presence of a root bridge also prevents loops from forming in the network. The root bridge is where the paths that frames take through the network they are assigned. It should be located centrally on the network to provide the shortest path to other links on the network. Unlike other bridges, the root bridge always forwards frames out over all of its ports. Every network should only have one root bridge. It should have the lowest bridge ID number.
- round-robin — a sequence or series.
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- sailboarder — windsurfer
- scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
- 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.
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- 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.
- sorbic acid — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 8 O 2 , slightly soluble in water, soluble in many organic solvents: used as a preservative in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- tenebrionid — darkling beetle.
- toll bridge — a bridge at which a toll is charged.
- toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
- triple bond — a chemical linkage consisting of three covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by three lines or six dots, as CH≡CH or CH⋮⋮CH.
- trombiculid — (of a mite) belonging to the family Trombiculidae
- tropic bird — any of several web-footed seabirds of the family Phaethontidae, chiefly of tropical seas, having white plumage with black markings and a pair of greatly elongated central tail feathers.
- tuberculoid — resembling a tubercle.
- underbodice — a bodice worn under an outer bodice.
- unforbidden — a past participle of forbid.
- white-robed — clothed in a white robe.
- whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
- wind-broken — having the breathing impaired; affected with heaves.
- wizard book — (publication) Hal Abelson, Gerald Sussman and Julie Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the jacket. One of the bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less commonly, known as the Purple Book.
- wood rabbit — a cottontail.
- yorba linda — a city in SW California.