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11-letter words containing h, o, b, n

  • lophobranch — belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, sea horses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.
  • luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
  • maniaphobia — Fear of being insane.
  • march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
  • melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
  • mesobenthos — flora and fauna living at the bottom of seas 182 to 914 metres deep
  • monohybrids — Plural form of monohybrid.
  • mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
  • necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
  • negrophobia — strong fear or dislike of black people.
  • neighboring — situated or living near another: one of our neighbor nations.
  • neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
  • neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora
  • noctiphobia — Fear of night; nyctophobia.
  • nonwashable — Not washable.
  • north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
  • northbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • northumbria — an early English kingdom extending N from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.
  • nothing but — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
  • nyctophobia — an abnormal fear of night or darkness.
  • on the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • 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.
  • on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
  • overburthen — to overburden
  • phone booth — A phone booth is a place in a station, hotel, or other public building where there is a public telephone.
  • phonophobia — an intense fear of noises
  • pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
  • prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
  • 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.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
  • 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.
  • sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
  • 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.
  • scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
  • snobography — an account or description of snobs
  • sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
  • sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
  • stench bomb — a small bomb made to emit a foul smell on exploding.
  • stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
  • sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
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