11-letter words containing o, b, s, t
- hematoblast — an immature blood cell, especially a red blood cell.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- 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
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- incubations — Plural form of incubation.
- inhibitions — the act of inhibiting.
- inobservant — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inobtrusive — unobtrusive.
- ish-bosheth — a son and successor of Saul. II Sam. 2–4.
- isoantibody — (formerly) an alloantibody.
- isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
- jaboticabas — Plural form of jaboticaba.
- job costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- job's-tears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- kinky boots — boots with a very high heel and pointed toe, reaching to the thigh and often made of a shiny material, which are intended to look provocative and sexy
- knockabouts — Plural form of knockabout.
- lestobiosis — cleptobiosis characterized by furtive thievery.
- letterboxes — Plural form of letterbox.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- lobectomies — Plural form of lobectomy.
- lobotomised — to perform a lobotomy on.
- lobster net — a net used for catching lobsters
- lobster pot — a trap for catching lobsters, typically a box made of wooden slats with a funnellike entrance to the bait.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lobsterlike — Resembling a lobster or some aspect of one.
- locust bean — carob.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- loose bytes — Commonwealth hackish term for the padding bytes or shims many compilers insert between members of a record or structure to cope with alignment requirements imposed by the machine architecture.
- lost tribes — the members of the ten tribes of ancient Israel who were taken into captivity in 722 b.c. by Sargon II of Assyria and are believed never to have returned to Palestine. II Kings 17:1–23.
- lymphoblast — a large, metabolically active lymphocyte shortly before it enters into mitosis.
- maraboutism — Support for marabouts (Muslim holy men or mystics).
- masturbator — to engage in masturbation.
- matchboards — Plural form of matchboard.
- matzo balls — dumplings made from ground matzo
- megaloblast — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
- melanoblast — an undifferentiated cell that develops into a melanophore or melanocyte.
- melba toast — narrow slices of thin, crisp toast.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mesobenthos — flora and fauna living at the bottom of seas 182 to 914 metres deep
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- metabolised — Simple past tense and past participle of metabolise.