12-letter words containing o, s, b, r, n, e
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- oracle bones — animal bones used for divination
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- overboldness — The state or fact of being too bold; audacity.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
- press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
- reset button — control that restores a default setting
- resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
- reverse snob — a person overly proud of being one of or sympathetic to the common people, and who denigrates or shuns those of superior ability, education, social standing, etc.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- san bernardo — a city in central Chile, S of Santiago.
- sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
- sober-minded — rational; sensible.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- strobe tuner — an electronic instrument tuner that uses stroboscopic light
- stubbornness — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- the sorbonne — a part of the University of Paris containing the faculties of science and literature: founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon as a theological college; given to the university in 1808
- transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- unburdensome — oppressively heavy; onerous.
- union buster — any of a group of persons hired by a company to disperse picketers, end a strike or job action, etc., especially by violence or intimidation.
- unobservable — incapable of observation; imperceptible
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- unobservedly — without having been observed; in an unobserved manner
- unobstructed — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unpersonable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- unreasonable — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
- unreasonably — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
- unresolvable — not able to be resolved or brought to a satisfactory resolution