11-letter words containing n, b, o
- fantabulous — extremely fine or desirable; excellent; wonderful.
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- fashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fashionably — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
- fetter bone — the great pastern bone of a horse. See under pastern (def 2).
- fibrination — (medicine) The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.
- fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
- fibronectin — a fibrous protein that binds to collagen, fibrin, and other proteins and also to the cell membranes, functioning as an anchor and connector.
- fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
- fimbriation — fimbriate or fringed condition.
- fine bouche — a refined taste; educated palate.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
- fissionable — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flamboyance — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flamboyancy — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
- flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- flying bomb — robot bomb.
- flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footbinding — The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
- forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- forcing bid — a bid, often at a higher level than is required, that is understood to oblige the bidder's partner to reply
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- freebooting — to act as a freebooter; plunder; loot.
- front bench — (used with a singular verb) (in the House of Commons) either of two seats near the Speaker, on which the leaders of the major parties sit.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
- frostbitten — injured by frost or extreme cold.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- fusion bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- gauge boson — a boson that mediates the interaction between elementary particles. There are several types: photons for electromagnetic interactions, W and Z intermediate vector bosons for weak interactions, and gravitons for gravitational interactions
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- giambologna — Giovanni da [jee-uh-vah-nee duh;; Italian jaw-vahn-nee dah] /ˌdʒi əˈvɑ ni də;; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Jean de Boulogne; Giambologna) c1525–1608, Italian sculptor, born in France.
- gibbousness — The quality of being gibbous.
- gibson girl — the idealized American girl of the 1890s as represented in the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.