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11-letter words containing n, b, o

  • subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
  • subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
  • subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
  • subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
  • subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
  • subdivision — the act or fact of subdividing.
  • subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
  • subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • subincision — the slitting of the underside of the penis to the urethra, performed as a puberty rite among some tribal peoples, especially in Australia.
  • subitaneous — sudden
  • subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • subjunction — an act of subjoining.
  • sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
  • submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target
  • subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
  • subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
  • subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
  • subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
  • subrational — less than or almost rational.
  • subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • subsumption — an act of subsuming.
  • subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
  • superabound — to abound beyond something else.
  • symbolizing — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
  • tabefaction — the process of tabefying
  • table money — an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army
  • tanbark oak — any oak that yields tanbark, especially an evergreen oak, Lithocarpus densiflora, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • technophobe — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
  • teenybopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
  • tenebrionid — darkling beetle.
  • terebration — the action of drilling or puncturing
  • the lebanon — a republic in W Asia, on the Mediterranean: an important centre of the Phoenician civilization in the third millennium bc; part of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 until 1919; gained independence in 1941 (effective by 1945). Official language: Arabic; French and English are also widely spoken. Religion: Muslim and Christian. Currency: Lebanese pound. Capital: Beirut. Pop: 4 131 583 (2013 est). Area: 10 400 sq km (4015 sq miles)
  • theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
  • thingamabob — thingamajig.
  • thingumabob — thingamajig.
  • thromboxane — a compound, C 20 H 32 O 5 , formed in blood platelets, that constricts blood vessels and promotes clotting.
  • thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
  • thumbs down — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
  • thumbs-down — an act or instance of dissent, disapproval, etc.
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