11-letter words containing b, i, s, o, c
- isallobaric — relating to isobars
- jaboticabas — Plural form of jaboticaba.
- job costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- koulibiacas — Plural form of koulibiaca.
- lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
- lobectomies — Plural form of lobectomy.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- macrobiosis — long life.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- microbursts — Plural form of microburst.
- microfibers — Plural form of microfiber.
- misbecoming — Present participle of misbecome.
- mobocracies — Plural form of mobocracy.
- monoblastic — having a single layer, as an embryo in the blastula stage or developing from a single layer.
- musical box — music box.
- necrobiosis — the death of cells or tissue caused by aging or disease.
- nonmiscible — not capable of being mixed.
- nonsyllabic — not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable.
- nonsymbolic — not involving or using symbols
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfusticate — Synonym of obfuscate.
- object lisp — (language) An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
- objectifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of objectify.
- objectivise — to cause to become concrete or objective; objectify.
- objectivism — a tendency to lay stress on the objective or external elements of cognition.
- objectivist — a tendency to lay stress on the objective or external elements of cognition.
- obscenities — the character or quality of being obscene; indecency; lewdness.
- obscuration — the act of obscuring.
- obscurities — Plural form of obscurity.
- obsecration — to entreat solemnly; beseech; supplicate.
- obsolescing — to be or become obsolescent.
- obstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- obstriction — the condition of being under an obligation, or a duty or compulsion that causes obligation
- obstructing — Present participle of obstruct.
- obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- obstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- orbicularis — a muscle surrounding an opening
- postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
- processible — capable of being processed.
- psychobilly — loud frantic rockabilly music
- pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
- quebecoises — a native or inhabitant of Quebec, especially one who is from the city of Quebec and whose native language is French.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- saltimbocca — veal and ham wrapped together and sautéed in butter, often seasoned with sage.
- saprobiotic — saprobic
- 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.
- scopophobia — the fear of being observed