11-letter words containing n, o, b, t
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- 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.
- retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
- revibration — the act of vibrating.
- riding boot — a knee-high boot of black or brown leather, without fastenings, forming part of a riding habit.
- robert owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
- robot plane — an unmanned plane
- round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
- round table — conference, meeting
- 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.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- 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.
- second best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
- second-best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
- slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- 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.