11-letter words containing n, b, o
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
- second base — the second in order of the bases from home plate.
- second best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
- second-best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
- shacklebone — the wrist
- shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
- signal book — a book containing the signals to be used for sending messages to other boats
- single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
- skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
- slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
- smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
- snob appeal — the attributes of something that appeal to people who associate those qualities with social or intellectual superiority; a thing's attractiveness to snobs.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
- snow blower — a motor-driven machine on wheels used to remove snow by throwing it into the air and to one side.
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
- snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
- soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- splint bone — one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the horse or some allied animal, one on each side of the back of each cannon bone.
- sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
- spoon bread — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- stench bomb — a small bomb made to emit a foul smell on exploding.
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- sternotribe — (of a flower) having contact with the sternum of an insect
- stone broke — having no money whatsoever.
- stone-blind — completely blind.
- stone-broke — having no money whatsoever.
- stony brook — a town in N Long Island, in SE New York.
- stony-broke — completely without money; penniless
- stop button — (on a DVD player, cassette recorder, etc) the off switch
- store brand — an item offered for sale under a store's own label.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- sub-economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.