11-letter words containing e, m, b, o
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- motherboard — a rigid, slotted board upon which other boards that contain the basic circuitry of a computer or of a computer component can be mounted. Compare board (def 14).
- motorboater — Someone who pilots a motorboat.
- mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- mouse elbow — (jargon, medical) A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP. Similarly, "mouse shoulder". GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself to be ambimoustrous.
- movableness — The quality or state of being movable; mobility.
- moveability — Alternative form of movability.
- multilobate — having or comprised of several lobes
- mumble mode — (jargon) The mode a program, piece of hardware, or other system is said to be in when it is still running and perhaps reacting to input and/or occasionally producing output (especially if it shouldn't), but in a way that appears wildly inappropriate to the task it is supposed to perform. Compare "off the trolley" and "deep space".
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- myeloblasts — Plural form of myeloblast.
- noble metal — any of a number of metals, as gold, silver, mercury, or platinum, that resist oxidation when heated in air, and solution by inorganic acids.
- nonmeltable — Unmeltable.
- nonmiscible — not capable of being mixed.
- nonverbatim — Not verbatim, i.e. not corresponding to the original, word for word.
- number work — simple arithmetic and similar mathematical procedures as used and studied at primary level
- objectivism — a tendency to lay stress on the objective or external elements of cognition.
- obligements — Plural form of obligement.
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- obtemperate — (obsolete) To obey.
- oil embargo — a prohibition of the trade of petroleum from one country to another
- ombrogenous — (of plants) able to flourish in wet conditions
- ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
- omnibearing — the magnetic bearing of an omnirange station.
- 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.
- onyx marble — Mexican onyx.
- optimizable — Capable of being optimized.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- parcel bomb — explosive device in a package
- pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
- performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- petrol bomb — Molotov cocktail.
- phlebectomy — the surgical excision of a vein or part of a vein
- phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
- port number — port
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
- premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- procerebrum — (in certain invertebrates) the front part of the central nervous system
- programable — capable of being programmed.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
- reform bill — any of the bills passed by Parliament (1832, 1867, 1884) providing for an increase in the number of voters in elections for the House of Commons, especially the bill of 1832 by which many rotten boroughs were disfranchised.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- rocket bomb — an aerial bomb equipped with a rocket for added velocity after being dropped from an aircraft.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.