11-letter words containing b, o, r, n, i, c
- 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.
- recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
- ribbon copy — the original copy of a number of typewritten copies (distinguished from carbon copy).
- ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
- roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
- rowing club — rowboat association
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- 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.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- tocharian b — the western dialect of Tocharian
- tricone bit — A tricone bit is a drill bit with a head that is divided into three main parts.
- underbodice — a bodice worn under an outer bodice.