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11-letter words containing e, b, a

  • on the beam — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
  • on the beat — A police officer on the beat is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible.
  • on the bias — A dress or skirt that is cut on the bias or that is bias-cut has been cut diagonally across the material so that it hangs down in a particular way.
  • onyx marble — Mexican onyx.
  • openability — The quality of being openable.
  • opera buffa — an Italian farcical comic opera originating in the 18th century and containing recitativo secco, patter songs, and ensemble finales.
  • operability — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
  • optimizable — Capable of being optimized.
  • orange book — (security, standard)   A standard from the US Government National Computer Security Council (an arm of the U.S. National Security Agency), "Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria, DOD standard 5200.28-STD, December 1985" which defines criteria for trusted computer products. There are four levels, A, B, C, and D. Each level adds more features and requirements. D is a non-secure system. C1 requires user log-on, but allows group ID. C2 requires individual log-on with password and an audit mechanism. (Most Unix implementations are roughly C1, and can be upgraded to about C2 without excessive pain). Levels B and A provide mandatory control. Access is based on standard Department of Defense clearances. B1 requires DOD clearance levels. B2 guarantees the path between the user and the security system and provides assurances that the system can be tested and clearances cannot be downgraded. B3 requires that the system is characterised by a mathematical model that must be viable. A1 requires a system characterized by a mathematical model that can be proven. See also crayola books, book titles.
  • ordeal bean — Calabar bean.
  • order about — to bully or domineer
  • organizable — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • orthoborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any anion derived from orthoboric acid; any salt containing this anion.
  • osteoblasts — Plural form of osteoblast.
  • otter board — one of a pair of large, heavy, square or rectangular plates or boards of metal or weighted wood attached to the trawl lines on each side of the mouth of a trawl net to maintain lateral spread during trawling.
  • outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
  • outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
  • outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
  • outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
  • overbalance — to outweigh: The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
  • overballast — (transitive) To load with too much ballast.
  • overbearing — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
  • overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
  • oveta hobby — Oveta Culp [kuhlp] /kʌlp/ (Show IPA), 1905–1995, U.S. newspaper publisher and government official: first director of Women's Army Corps 1942–45; first Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1953–55.
  • oyster crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres ostreum, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of oysters.
  • pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • packet boat — a boat that travels a regular route, as along a coast or on a river, carrying passengers, freight, and mail
  • paddle ball — a game similar to handball, but played with a short-handled, perforated paddle
  • paddle boat — small boat with pedals
  • paddleboard — a type of surfboard with one end rounded and the other tapered to a point, used chiefly in surfing and often in lifesaving.
  • paleobotany — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil plants.
  • paper birch — a North American birch, Betula papyrifera, having a tough bark and yielding a valuable wood: the state tree of New Hampshire.
  • paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • para rubber — India rubber obtained from the tree Hevea brasiliensis, of the spurge family, and other species of the same genus of tropical South America.
  • parabematic — relating to the parabema
  • parablepsis — abnormal vision
  • parableptic — relating to parablepsis
  • parcel bomb — explosive device in a package
  • parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • passed ball — a pitched ball that the catcher can reasonably be expected to catch but misses, resulting in a base runner's or runners' advancing one or more bases or in the batter's reaching first base safely.
  • passer-byes — a person passing by.
  • pastry tube — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
  • pathbreaker — a person who blazes a trail or path; pathfinder.
  • peace lobby — a lobby for peace or the end of conflict
  • peach melba — a dessert consisting of cooked peach halves served with vanilla ice cream and Melba sauce.
  • pease-brose — brose made from a meal of dried peas
  • pebble dash — an exterior wall finish composed of mortar against which, while still wet, small pebbles have been thrown and pressed in.
  • peche melba — peach Melba.
  • pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
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