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11-letter words containing o, b

  • bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
  • biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
  • biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
  • biographize — to write a biography of (someone)
  • bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
  • biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
  • biologistic — relating to biologism
  • biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
  • biomedicine — the medical study of the effects of unusual environmental stress on human beings, esp in connection with space travel
  • biometrical — pertaining to biometry
  • biomimetics — the study and development of synthetic systems that mimic the formation, function, or structure of biologically produced substances and materials and biological mechanisms and processes.
  • biomodeling — the mathematical modeling of biological reactions.
  • biomolecule — a molecule occurring naturally in living organisms
  • biomorphism — a painted, drawn, or sculptured free form or design suggestive in shape of a living organism, especially an ameba or protozoan: The paintings of Joan Miró are often notable for their playful, bright-colored biomorphs.
  • biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
  • bioprinting — the construction of replacement body parts using techniques developed for three-dimensional printing
  • bioregional — relating to a bioregion
  • bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
  • biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
  • bipartition — divided into or consisting of two parts.
  • bird's-foot — a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus, with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
  • birddogging — the act of pursuing with determination
  • birobidzhan — a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
  • bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
  • bisociation — the association of one idea with two different contexts
  • bisociative — relating to bisociation
  • bit-robbing — in-band signalling
  • bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots
  • bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
  • bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
  • black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
  • black goods — electronic goods which are housed in black or dark casings, such as televisions, CD players, etc
  • black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
  • black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
  • black ivory — Black slaves collectively
  • black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • black olive — a tropical American tree, Bucida buceras, having leathery leaves and greenish-yellow flowers.
  • black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
  • black volta — a river in W Africa, rising in SW Burkina Faso and flowing northeast, then south into Lake Volta: forms part of the border of Ghana with Burkina-Faso and with Côte d'Ivoire. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)
  • black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
  • black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
  • blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
  • blacktongue — canine pellagra.
  • bladdernose — hooded seal
  • bladderworm — cysticercus
  • bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
  • blagonravov — Anatoli Arkadyevich [an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee uhr-kah-dyi-vyich] /ˈæn əˌtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi ʌrˈkɑ dyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1975, Russian scientist.
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
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