11-letter words containing b, o, r
- embryophyte — any of a subkingdom of plants, Embryophyta, that encompasses most land plants, such as trees, flowers and mosses
- emery board — abrasive tool for shaping fingernails
- enforceable — Capable of being enforced.
- erodibility — the ability to erode
- erotophobia — an abnormal fear of sexuality
- erythorbate — erythorbic acid; a food additive used as an antioxidant
- exboyfriend — Alternative form of ex-boyfriend.
- exhorbitant — Misspelling of exorbitant.
- exorbitance — The state or characteristic of being exorbitant.
- exorbitancy — Alternative form of exorbitance.
- eyebrowless — having no eyebrows
- fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
- fabricators — Plural form of fabricator.
- facebookers — Plural form of facebooker.
- false labor — irregular contractions of the uterus prior to actual labor and without accompanying dilation of the cervix.
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
- febriferous — producing fever.
- fetter bone — the great pastern bone of a horse. See under pastern (def 2).
- fiberscopes — Plural form of fiberscope.
- fibre optic — using or consisting of very thin flexible fibres of glass down which information modulated on light is carried
- fibrination — (medicine) The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.
- fibroblasts — Plural form of fibroblast.
- fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
- fibrocystic — showing or having the increased fibrosis associated with dilated glandular structure, as in the breast nodules of fibrocystic disease.
- fibronectin — a fibrous protein that binds to collagen, fibrin, and other proteins and also to the cell membranes, functioning as an anchor and connector.
- fibroplasia — the formation of fibrous tissue.
- fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
- fimbriation — fimbriate or fringed condition.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
- first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
- flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
- floorboards — Plural form of floorboard.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- foam rubber — a light, spongy rubber, used for mattresses, cushions, etc.
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- forcing bid — a bid, often at a higher level than is required, that is understood to oblige the bidder's partner to reply
- forebearers — Plural form of forebearer.
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- foreseeable — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.