11-letter words containing b, o, a, t, m
- monoblastic — having a single layer, as an embryo in the blastula stage or developing from a single layer.
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
- monte alban — a major ceremonial center of the Zapotec culture, near the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, occupied from 600 b.c. to a.d. 700.
- montego bay — a city in NW Jamaica: seaside resort.
- mortarboard — a board, usually square, used by masons to hold mortar.
- mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
- motherboard — a rigid, slotted board upon which other boards that contain the basic circuitry of a computer or of a computer component can be mounted. Compare board (def 14).
- motorboater — Someone who pilots a motorboat.
- mount tabor — a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft)
- mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- moveability — Alternative form of movability.
- multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
- multilobate — having or comprised of several lobes
- myeloblasts — Plural form of myeloblast.
- noble metal — any of a number of metals, as gold, silver, mercury, or platinum, that resist oxidation when heated in air, and solution by inorganic acids.
- nonmeltable — Unmeltable.
- nonverbatim — Not verbatim, i.e. not corresponding to the original, word for word.
- northumbria — an early English kingdom extending N from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.
- obtemperate — (obsolete) To obey.
- obumbration — the action of making dim, dark, obfuscated, or eclipsed
- on the beam — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
- optimizable — Capable of being optimized.
- pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- photo album — bound book for photos
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- saltimbocca — veal and ham wrapped together and sautéed in butter, often seasoned with sage.
- skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
- statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- table money — an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army
- 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.
- tempolabile — changing irregularly with time
- thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
- thingamabob — thingamajig.
- thingumabob — thingamajig.
- thromboxane — a compound, C 20 H 32 O 5 , formed in blood platelets, that constricts blood vessels and promotes clotting.
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
- timbromania — a mania or passion for stamp-collecting
- tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.