11-letter words containing r, a, b, o
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
- tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
- trobar clus — a complex and obscure style of writing adopted by some 12th-century Provençal poets.
- trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
- trophoblast — the layer of extraembryonic ectoderm that chiefly nourishes the embryo or develops into fetal membranes with nutritive functions.
- troubadours — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
- trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
- tuberaceous — belonging or relating to the order of fungi Tuberaceae, or specifically the truffle genus (Tuber)
- tuberculoma — a tumour or other mass that grows from a tuberculous lesion or caused by the tubercle bacillus
- tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
- turbocharge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- tycho brahe — Tycho [tee-koh;; Danish ty-koh] /ˈti koʊ;; Danish ˈtü koʊ/ (Show IPA), 1546–1601, Danish astronomer.
- umbratilous — shadowy; faint
- unabrogated — not abrogated, revoked, or annulled
- unabsorbent — (of fabric, material, etc) not able to soak up liquid
- unarousable — to stir to action or strong response; excite: to arouse a crowd; to arouse suspicion.
- uncrossable — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- unelaborate — not elaborate; not overly or richly detailed
- unfavorable — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
- unfavorably — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
- unforceable — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- unforgeable — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
- unignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- unignorably — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- unlaborious — not involving great exertion or long effort
- unlabouring — not labouring
- unmemorable — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- unmemorably — in a way that is not memorable
- unobservant — who fails to notice
- unorderable — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- unremovable — that may be removed.
- unrevokable — that may be revoked.
- untolerable — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- vallombrosa — a resort in central Italy, near Florence: famous abbey.
- vapour bath — the act of bathing in vapour, formerly believed to have medicinal benefits
- verbal noun — a noun derived from a verb, especially by a process applicable to most or all verbs, as, in English, the -ing form of Eating is fun or of Smoking is forbidden.
- verberation — a lashing, beating, or whipping
- vibrational — the act of vibrating.
- vibratoless — without vibrato
- vox barbara — a questionably unconventional word or term; barbarism: applied especially to neo-Latin terms in botany, zoology, etc., that are formed from elements that are neither Latin nor Greek.
- wakeboarder — someone who rides a wakeboard
- warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
- water-borne — A water-borne disease or infection is one that people can catch from infected water.
- wheelbarrow — a frame or box for conveying a load, supported at one end by a wheel or wheels, and lifted and pushed at the other by two horizontal shafts.
- whereabouts — about where? where?
- whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
- whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
- wizard book — (publication) Hal Abelson, Gerald Sussman and Julie Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the jacket. One of the bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less commonly, known as the Purple Book.
- wokka board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument
- wonderbread — (pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.