11-letter words containing b, o, n, m
- monoblastic — having a single layer, as an embryo in the blastula stage or developing from a single layer.
- monoblepsis — a condition of the eyesight in which there is no problem with vision when one eye is involved but there is impairment to vision that uses both eyes
- monohybrids — Plural form of monohybrid.
- 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.
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
- 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.
- movableness — The quality or state of being movable; mobility.
- moxibustion — (in Eastern medicine) the burning of moxa on or near a person’s skin as a counterirritant.
- multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- mutton bird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- muttonbirds — Plural form of muttonbird.
- nanaimo bar — a chocolate-coated sweet with a filling made from butter and icing sugar
- napalm bomb — a bomb made from a thick and highly incendiary liquid, usually consisting of petrol gelled with aluminium soaps, used in firebombs, flame-throwers, etc
- 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.
- nonmiscible — not capable of being mixed.
- nonsymbolic — not involving or using symbols
- 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.
- number work — simple arithmetic and similar mathematical procedures as used and studied at primary level
- obdormition — The sensation of numbness that occurs in a limb when it \"falls asleep\" due to pressure on a nerve.
- obligements — Plural form of obligement.
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- obumbration — the action of making dim, dark, obfuscated, or eclipsed
- odd-job man — An odd-job man is a man who is paid to do various jobs such as cleaning or repairing things, usually in someone's home.
- ombrogenous — (of plants) able to flourish in wet conditions
- ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
- ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
- omnibearing — the magnetic bearing of an omnirange station.
- 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.
- onyx marble — Mexican onyx.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
- port number — port
- prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- ribbon worm — any of various slender, unsegmented marine worms of the phylum Nemertea, being able to contract and stretch to an extreme extent.
- robing room — a room in a palace, court, legislature, etc, where official robes of office are put on
- roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom