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11-letter words containing b, r, n

  • overbetting — the activity or practice of betting more than the usual or permitted amount
  • overbidding — Present participle of overbid.
  • overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
  • overblowing — A technique for playing a wind instrument so as to produce overtones.
  • overbooking — Present participle of overbook.
  • overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
  • overburthen — to overburden
  • overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
  • oxbow front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a curve with a concave section between two convex ones.
  • pan-arabism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the Arab nations.
  • paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
  • parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
  • parking bay — a space in a car park designed to be large enough to park a vehicle in
  • parson bird — tui.
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • perturbment — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • pine barren — a tract of sandy or peaty soil in which pine trees are the principal growth, as in low-lying areas near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
  • pine-barren — a tract of sandy or peaty soil in which pine trees are the principal growth, as in low-lying areas near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
  • piz bernina — a mountain in SE Switzerland, the highest peak of the Bernina Alps in the S Rhaetian Alps. Height: 4049 m (13 284 ft)
  • port number — port
  • pouring box — tundish (def 2).
  • powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
  • power brand — a brand of product that is a household name associated with a successful company
  • pre-bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
  • precambrian — noting or pertaining to the earliest era of earth history, ending 570 million years ago, during which the earth's crust formed and life first appeared in the seas.
  • prehensible — able to be seized or grasped.
  • prelibation — a foretaste.
  • prenumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • presentable — that may be presented.
  • press baron — an influential newspaper publisher or owner who usually controls more than one widely circulated newspaper.
  • preventable — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
  • proabortion — pro-choice.
  • probational — the act of testing.
  • probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
  • probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
  • prolongable — able to be lengthened
  • prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
  • prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
  • prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
  • protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
  • queensberryJohn Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquis of, 1844–1900, Scottish nobleman and sponsor of modern boxing rules.
  • rabattement — the act of rabatting
  • rabelaisian — of, relating to, or suggesting François Rabelais, whose work is characterized by broad, coarse humor and keen satire.
  • 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.
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
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