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11-letter words containing n, b, o

  • prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
  • 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.
  • protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
  • publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
  • pulley bone — wishbone (def 1).
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
  • pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
  • quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
  • radiocarbon — Also called carbon 14. a radioactive isotope of carbon with mass number 14 and a half-life of about 5730 years: widely used in the dating of organic materials.
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
  • ration book — a book showing an individual's entitlement to certain rationed goods
  • recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
  • 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.
  • reprobation — disapproval, condemnation, or censure.
  • responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
  • revibration — the act of vibrating.
  • rex begonia — a plant, Begonia rex, native to India, having wrinkled, variegated leaves and thick, hairy stems, and cultivated in many varieties.
  • rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
  • ribbon copy — the original copy of a number of typewritten copies (distinguished from carbon copy).
  • ribbon worm — any of various slender, unsegmented marine worms of the phylum Nemertea, being able to contract and stretch to an extreme extent.
  • ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
  • riding boot — a knee-high boot of black or brown leather, without fastenings, forming part of a riding habit.
  • robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • robert owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
  • robing room — a room in a palace, court, legislature, etc, where official robes of office are put on
  • robot plane — an unmanned plane
  • rock blenny — a prickleback, Xiphister mucosus, of the Pacific coast from southern California to Alaska.
  • rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
  • roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
  • roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
  • round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round-robin — a sequence or series.
  • round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
  • rowing boat — rowboat.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
  • sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
  • salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
  • 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.
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