11-letter words containing o, b, e, n
- fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
- fibronectin — a fibrous protein that binds to collagen, fibrin, and other proteins and also to the cell membranes, functioning as an anchor and connector.
- fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
- fine bouche — a refined taste; educated palate.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
- fissionable — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flamboyance — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
- forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- 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.
- frostbitten — injured by frost or extreme cold.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- 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
- gibbousness — The quality of being gibbous.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
- gobble down — eat hungrily
- gold bronze — an alloy of about 90 percent copper, 5 percent zinc, 3 percent lead, and 2 percent tin.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
- gombeen-man — a usurer or moneylender.
- gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
- greenbottle — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- 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
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
- heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.