11-letter words containing n, o, a, b, s
- cannonballs — Plural form of cannonball.
- carabineros — Plural form of carabinero.
- carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
- carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
- castor bean — the seed of this plant
- chrysarobin — a tasteless odourless powder containing anthraquinone derivatives of araroba, formerly used medicinally to treat chronic skin conditions
- cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
- cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- collarbones — Plural form of collarbone.
- combinators — Plural form of combinator.
- compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated
- condensable — capable of being condensed.
- confessable — That can be confessed.
- confiscable — subject or liable to confiscation or seizure
- confusables — Plural form of confusable.
- conservable — capable of being conserved: conservable fruits.
- construable — that can be construed
- consumables — goods intended to be bought, used, and replaced, esp materials needed for computers and photocopiers
- contestable — a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
- contrabands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contraband.
- contrabasso — (music) The largest kind of bass viol.
- conversable — easy or pleasant to talk to
- coram nobis — a writ to correct an injury caused by a mistake of the court.
- cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- cotton swab — A cotton swab is the same as a swab.
- counterbase — a double bass
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
- demibastion — half a bastion, having only one flank, at right angles to the wall
- diagnosable — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- drainboards — Plural form of drainboard.
- fantabulous — extremely fine or desirable; excellent; wonderful.
- fashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fashionably — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fissionable — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- gauge boson — a boson that mediates the interaction between elementary particles. There are several types: photons for electromagnetic interactions, W and Z intermediate vector bosons for weak interactions, and gravitons for gravitational interactions
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- habitations — Plural form of habitation.
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.