12-letter words containing m, o, b, s
- nonsymbiotic — Not symbiotic.
- numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
- obmutescence — persistent silence
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions
- ombrophobous — (of plants) not able to tolerate wet conditions
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- omnibus bill — a bill dealing with, or providing for many different things or cases
- omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
- plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- polyribosome — polysome.
- port moresby — an independent republic in the W Pacific Ocean, comprising the E part of New Guinea and numerous near-lying islands, including the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, the Trobriand Islands, and Bougainville and Buka in the Solomon Islands: a former Australian Trusteeship Territory; independent since 1975; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 178,260 sq. mi. (461,693 sq. km). Capital: Port Moresby.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
- resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
- schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
- scotch broom — the broom, Cytisus scoparius.
- semiarboreal — (of animals) spending half or some of their life in trees
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- snowmobilist — a person who drives a snowmobile, a snowmobiler
- sober-minded — rational; sensible.
- somnambulant — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulism — sleepwalking.
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- stock symbol — A stock symbol is a standard abbreviation for a publicly traded stock.
- strobiliform — shaped as a strobilus
- sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- subabdominal — below or beneath the abdomen
- subcommittee — a secondary committee appointed out of a main committee.
- subcommunity — a self-contained community usually within the suburbs of a large urban area.
- subcomponent — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- submolecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.