11-letter words containing e, m, b, o
- rubber room — Informal. a room padded with foam rubber for the confinement of a violent mentally ill person.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
- seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
- skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy
- smell blood — sense a chance for victory
- smokey bear — an officer or officers of a state highway patrol.
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- stench bomb — a small bomb made to emit a foul smell on exploding.
- sub-economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
- subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- subemployed — of or relating to workers affected by subemployment
- submolecule — a part of a molecule
- suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
- superbomber — an aircraft used for dropping superbombs
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- table money — an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army
- tempolabile — changing irregularly with time
- 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
- thrombocyte — platelet.
- thromboxane — a compound, C 20 H 32 O 5 , formed in blood platelets, that constricts blood vessels and promotes clotting.
- 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.
- tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
- trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
- trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
- troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
- tuberculoma — a tumour or other mass that grows from a tuberculous lesion or caused by the tubercle bacillus
- tumble down — collapse, fall
- tumble home — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
- tumble over — If someone or something tumbles over, they fall, often with a rolling or bouncing movement.
- tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- umbriferous — casting or making shade.
- unblossomed — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
- uncombative — not combative or confrontational
- unmemorable — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- unmemorably — in a way that is not memorable
- unmountable — to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs.
- unremovable — that may be removed.
- warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
- whiteboyism — the principles or conduct of the Whiteboys
- wobble pump — an auxiliary hand pump for supplying fuel to the carburetor of an aircraft engine when the automatic pumping mechanism fails.
- women's lib — women's liberation: rights
- y2k problem — the predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000 because of their inability to distinguish between dates in the 1900s and dates in the 2000s: this inability results from the coding of year dates in some software and chips with only the final two, rather than all four, digits
- zombie bank — a bank that has liabilities exceeding its assets but continues to operate through government support: These zombie banks are unable or unwilling to lend out money.