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11-letter words containing o, b, e, n

  • robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • robert owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
  • robot plane — an unmanned plane
  • rock blenny — a prickleback, Xiphister mucosus, of the Pacific coast from southern California to Alaska.
  • rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
  • 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.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • second base — the second in order of the bases from home plate.
  • second best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
  • second-best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
  • skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
  • snob appeal — the attributes of something that appeal to people who associate those qualities with social or intellectual superiority; a thing's attractiveness to snobs.
  • snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
  • snow blower — a motor-driven machine on wheels used to remove snow by throwing it into the air and to one side.
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
  • soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
  • soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
  • soybean oil — a pale-yellow oil derived from soybeans by expression or solvent extraction: used as a food and in the manufacture of soap, candles, inks, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
  • 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.
  • spoon bread — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
  • 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-broke — completely without money; penniless
  • store brand — an item offered for sale under a store's own label.
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • sub-economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
  • subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
  • subitaneous — sudden
  • subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
  • superabound — to abound beyond something else.
  • tabefaction — the process of tabefying
  • table money — an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army
  • technophobe — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
  • teenybopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
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