11-letter words containing n, b, o
- lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
- lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- lumbaginous — relating to, or suffering from, lumbago
- lunar orbit — path or movement of the moon around the earth
- man and boy — from childhood
- maniaphobia — Fear of being insane.
- mantelboard — mantel.
- march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
- marionberry — a cross between a loganberry and a blackberry
- marrow bean — a plump-seeded strain of the common field bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), grown for its dry, edible seeds
- marrow bone — Marrow bones are the bones of certain animals, especially cows, that contain a lot of bone marrow. They are used in cooking and in dog food.
- marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
- mebendazole — an anthelmintic substance, C 1 6 H 1 3 N 3 O 3 , used for treating parasitic worm infestations.
- melanoblast — an undifferentiated cell that develops into a melanophore or melanocyte.
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- memory bank — the complete records, archives, or the like of an organization, country, etc.
- mentionable — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- mesobenthos — flora and fauna living at the bottom of seas 182 to 914 metres deep
- middle-born — neither first nor last in order of birth, especially second in a family of three children.
- mind-blower — a hallucinogenic drug.
- mindblowing — Alternative spelling of mind-blowing.
- minute book — a book in which the minutes of a meeting are recorded
- misbecoming — Present participle of misbecome.
- misbegotten — unlawfully or irregularly begotten; born of unmarried parents; illegitimate: his misbegotten son.
- misdoubting — Present participle of misdoubt.
- mixing bowl — receptacle for stirring ingredients
- mobile unit — a vehicle supplied with the basic equipment or materials necessary for a particular purpose, as for televising on location or being used as an x-ray or inoculation clinic.
- mockingbird — any of several gray, black, and white songbirds of the genus Mimus, especially M. polyglottos, of the U.S. and Mexico, noted for their ability to mimic the songs of other birds.
- molybdenite — a soft, graphitelike mineral, molybdenum sulfide, MoS 2 , occurring in foliated masses or scales: the principal ore of molybdenum.
- molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- monetizable — Able to be converted into cash with relative ease.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- monoblastic — having a single layer, as an embryo in the blastula stage or developing from a single layer.
- monoblepsis — a condition of the eyesight in which there is no problem with vision when one eye is involved but there is impairment to vision that uses both eyes
- monohybrids — Plural form of monohybrid.
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
- monte alban — a major ceremonial center of the Zapotec culture, near the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, occupied from 600 b.c. to a.d. 700.
- montego bay — a city in NW Jamaica: seaside resort.
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
- mount tabor — a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft)
- mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- movableness — The quality or state of being movable; mobility.
- moxibustion — (in Eastern medicine) the burning of moxa on or near a person’s skin as a counterirritant.