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

  • phone booth — A phone booth is a place in a station, hotel, or other public building where there is a public telephone.
  • pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
  • pineal body — (formerly) the pineal gland.
  • poison bean — Also called bladderpod. a tall plant, Glottidium vesicaria, of the legume family, native to the southeastern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers and pods containing highly poisonous seeds.
  • poke bonnet — a bonnet with a projecting front brim
  • pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
  • port number — port
  • potableness — the quality of being potable or drinkable
  • potato bean — groundnut (def 1).
  • pouncet box — a small perfume box with a perforated lid.
  • powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
  • power brand — a brand of product that is a household name associated with a successful company
  • preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
  • prelibation — a foretaste.
  • press baron — an influential newspaper publisher or owner who usually controls more than one widely circulated newspaper.
  • probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
  • probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • prolongable — able to be lengthened
  • prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
  • protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
  • pulley bone — wishbone (def 1).
  • pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
  • reprobation — disapproval, condemnation, or censure.
  • responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • robot plane — an unmanned plane
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • technophobe — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
  • teenybopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
  • triple bond — a chemical linkage consisting of three covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by three lines or six dots, as CH≡CH or CH⋮⋮CH.
  • unadoptable — (of children or animals) not able to be adopted or placed in a home
  • unstoppable — that cannot be stopped or surpassed; unbeatable: an unstoppable ball team.
  • upper bound — an element greater than or equal to all the elements in a given set: 3 and 4 are upper bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3. Compare bound3 (def 4), greatest lower bound, least upper bound, lower bound.
  • xenophobiac — (rare) A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
  • xenophobian — (rare) A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
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