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11-letter words containing b, r, i, e, o

  • sailboarder — windsurfer
  • scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
  • ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
  • silver book — (publication)   Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
  • skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
  • soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
  • soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
  • stereobatic — relating to or resembling a stereobate
  • stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
  • sternotribe — (of a flower) having contact with the sternum of an insect
  • stilbestrol — a nonsteroidal synthetic estrogen, C 18 H 20 O 2 , used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and in animal feeds for chemical caponization: formerly used during pregnancy for the prevention of miscarriage but discontinued owing to its association with an increased risk of vaginal and cervical cancers in women having had fetal exposure. Abbreviation: DES.
  • stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subprioress — a nun junior to a prioress
  • subvitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
  • taboparesis — the occurrence of two conditions (general paresis and tabes dorsalis) at the same time
  • tenebrionid — darkling beetle.
  • terebration — the action of drilling or puncturing
  • the cariboo — a region in the W foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, scene of a gold rush beginning in 1860
  • theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
  • thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
  • timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
  • toghril beg — ?990–1063 ad, Sultan of Turkey (1055–63), who founded the Seljuq dynasty and conquered Baghdad (1055)
  • toll bridge — a bridge at which a toll is charged.
  • toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
  • tricone bit — A tricone bit is a drill bit with a head that is divided into three main parts.
  • triple bond — a chemical linkage consisting of three covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by three lines or six dots, as CH≡CH or CH⋮⋮CH.
  • tuberculoid — resembling a tubercle.
  • umbriferous — casting or making shade.
  • underbodice — a bodice worn under an outer bodice.
  • unforbidden — a past participle of forbid.
  • unignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • unobserving — not observing
  • unobtrusive — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
  • verberation — a lashing, beating, or whipping
  • vibratoless — without vibrato
  • white-robed — clothed in a white robe.
  • whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
  • wilberforceWilliam, 1759–1833, British statesman, philanthropist, and writer.
  • willow herb — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Epilobium, of the evening primrose family, having terminal clusters of purplish or white flowers.
  • wind-broken — having the breathing impaired; affected with heaves.
  • working bee — a voluntary group doing a job for charity
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