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11-letter words containing b, o, r, g

  • oil embargo — a prohibition of the trade of petroleum from one country to another
  • oil-burning — that uses paraffin, esp as a domestic fuel
  • ombrogenous — (of plants) able to flourish in wet conditions
  • omnibearing — the magnetic bearing of an omnirange station.
  • orange book — (security, standard)   A standard from the US Government National Computer Security Council (an arm of the U.S. National Security Agency), "Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria, DOD standard 5200.28-STD, December 1985" which defines criteria for trusted computer products. There are four levels, A, B, C, and D. Each level adds more features and requirements. D is a non-secure system. C1 requires user log-on, but allows group ID. C2 requires individual log-on with password and an audit mechanism. (Most Unix implementations are roughly C1, and can be upgraded to about C2 without excessive pain). Levels B and A provide mandatory control. Access is based on standard Department of Defense clearances. B1 requires DOD clearance levels. B2 guarantees the path between the user and the security system and provides assurances that the system can be tested and clearances cannot be downgraded. B3 requires that the system is characterised by a mathematical model that must be viable. A1 requires a system characterized by a mathematical model that can be proven. See also crayola books, book titles.
  • 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.
  • over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
  • 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.
  • overbridges — Plural form of overbridge.
  • overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
  • oxford bags — trousers with very wide baggy legs, originally popular in the 1920s
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
  • pouring box — tundish (def 2).
  • pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
  • preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
  • programable — capable of being programmed.
  • prolongable — able to be lengthened
  • pyroballogy — the study of artillery
  • 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.
  • right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
  • road bridge — a bridge for road traffic
  • robber frog — any of numerous small frogs of the genera Eleutherodactylus and Hylactophryne, living chiefly in the American tropics.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • rowing boat — rowboat.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
  • rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • 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.
  • smorgasbord — a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, salads, casserole dishes, meats, cheeses, etc.
  • snobography — an account or description of snobs
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • 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
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
  • stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
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