13-letter words containing n, o, b, t
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- pro-abolition — the act of abolishing: the abolition of war.
- property bond — a bond issued by a life-assurance company, the premiums for which are invested in a property-owning fund
- proton number — the number of positive charges or protons in the nucleus of an atom of a given element, and therefore also the number of electrons normally surrounding the nucleus. Symbol: Z. Abbreviation: at. no.;
- quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- rabbath ammon — Amman.
- rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
- re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
- reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
- recombination — any of several processes by which genetic material of different origins becomes combined. It most commonly occurs between two sets of parental chromosomes during production of germ cells
- record button — the button that you press on a device or remote control to begin recording sound, images, etc
- redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
- relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- republication — publication anew.
- resublimation — 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.
- reverberation — a reechoed sound.
- robber trench — a trench that originally contained the foundations of a wall, the stones of which have been taken away
- robert fulton — Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.
- robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
- saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- scotch bonnet — a small, irregularly shaped, extremely hot chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense related to the habanero and ranging from yellow to red.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- seasonability — fact of being seasonable
- second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
- self-begotten — a past participle of beget.
- self-doubting — lacking in confidence
- sensible note — the major seventh note of any scale
- shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- snooze button — a button on an alarm clock that, if pressed when the alarm is going off, will suspend its ringing for a brief time before allowing it to go off again
- snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
- solvent abuse — Solvent abuse is the dangerous practice of breathing in the gases from substances such as glue in order to feel as if you are drunk.
- sorbitization — the act of sorbitizing
- sound blaster — (hardware) The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- southern blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
- spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
- stabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
- station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
- stone bramble — a herbaceous Eurasian rosaceous plant, Rubus saxatilis, of stony places, having white flowers and berry-like scarlet fruits (drupelets)
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- strong breeze — a wind of 25–30 miles per hour (11–13 m/sec).