11-letter words containing n, b, o
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.
- globalizing — Present participle of globalize.
- globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
- gnotobiosis — an environmental condition in which germfree animals have been inoculated with strains of known microorganisms.
- gnotobiotic — (of germfree animals) inoculated with microorganisms of a given type.
- gobble down — eat hungrily
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- gold bronze — an alloy of about 90 percent copper, 5 percent zinc, 3 percent lead, and 2 percent tin.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
- gombeen-man — a usurer or moneylender.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
- granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
- greenbottle — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- gymnophobia — An inordinate fear or hatred of being naked, and possibly nudity or nudists and naturists.
- habitations — Plural form of habitation.
- habituation — the act of habituating.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- hamate bone — a wedgelike bone on the side of the wrist connecting the wrist with the fourth and fifth metacarpals, which connect to the ring and little fingers
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- hash browns — fried potato cake
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
- heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
- heaven-born — of or as of heavenly origin: the heaven-born gods.
- helleborein — a yellow, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, C 37 H 56 O 18 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a heart stimulant.
- helleborine — A mainly woodland orchid occurring chiefly in north temperate regions.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- hereinabove — before in this document, statement, etc.
- hereinbelow — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- herringbone — a pattern consisting of adjoining vertical rows of slanting lines, any two contiguous lines forming either a V or an inverted V , used in masonry, textiles, embroidery, etc.
- hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.