11-letter words containing n, o, b, t
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footbinding — The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- freebooting — to act as a freebooter; plunder; loot.
- front bench — (used with a singular verb) (in the House of Commons) either of two seats near the Speaker, on which the leaders of the major parties sit.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
- frostbitten — injured by frost or extreme cold.
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- 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.
- gnotobiosis — an environmental condition in which germfree animals have been inoculated with strains of known microorganisms.
- gnotobiotic — (of germfree animals) inoculated with microorganisms of a given type.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- greenbottle — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- habitations — Plural form of habitation.
- habituation — the act of habituating.
- hamate bone — a wedgelike bone on the side of the wrist connecting the wrist with the fourth and fifth metacarpals, which connect to the ring and little fingers
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
- hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- hold button — a button on a telephone that enables someone to interrupt an incoming call temporarily in order to answer another call.
- holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
- honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
- honesty box — a container into which members of the public are trusted to place payments when there is no attendant to collect them
- horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- hot-tubbing — a wooden tub, usually large enough to accommodate several persons, that is filled with hot aerated water and often equipped with a thermostat and whirlpool: used for recreation or physical therapy and often placed out of doors, as on a porch.
- hunt button — a button engraved with the insignia of one's hunt and worn on the coat and vest as part of the hunt uniform.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- imbrication — an overlapping, as of tiles or shingles.
- improbation — the act of disapproving or objecting to something
- in the book — in all that is known and practiced in connection with a particular activity
- in/into bud — When a tree or plant is in bud or has come into bud, it has buds on it.
- incogitable — Not cogitable; inconceivable.
- incubations — Plural form of incubation.
- indomitable — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
- indomitably — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
- inebriation — to make drunk; intoxicate.
- inelaborate — Not elaborate; crude; unfinished.
- inhibitions — the act of inhibiting.
- inobservant — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inobtrusive — unobtrusive.
- interbroker — relating to interbroker dealers or their work
- interrobang — a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.