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11-letter words containing d, r, o, b, n

  • outnumbered — to exceed in number.
  • overbidding — Present participle of overbid.
  • overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
  • overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
  • paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
  • parson bird — tui.
  • 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
  • preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
  • 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.
  • raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
  • redhibition — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
  • rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
  • riding boot — a knee-high boot of black or brown leather, without fastenings, forming part of a riding habit.
  • robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
  • roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
  • round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round-robin — a sequence or series.
  • round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • 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.
  • scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
  • slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • 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.
  • spoon bread — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
  • springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
  • store brand — an item offered for sale under a store's own label.
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • superabound — to abound beyond something else.
  • tenebrionid — darkling beetle.
  • thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
  • transborder — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
  • 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.
  • tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
  • unabrogated — not abrogated, revoked, or annulled
  • unbetrothed — engaged to be married: She is betrothed to that young lieutenant.
  • underbodice — a bodice worn under an outer bodice.
  • unforbidden — a past participle of forbid.
  • unorderable — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
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