11-letter words containing r, i, b, o, n
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
- soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- sternotribe — (of a flower) having contact with the sternum of an insect
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- tenebrionid — darkling beetle.
- terebration — the action of drilling or puncturing
- theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
- timbromania — a mania or passion for stamp-collecting
- tocharian b — the western dialect of Tocharian
- torsion bar — a metal bar having elasticity when subjected to torsion: used as a spring in various machines and in automobile suspensions.
- tourbillion — a whirlwind or something resembling a whirlwind.
- trailbaston — a judging commission first created by Edward I of England which punished crimes and trespass
- transphobia — unreasoning hostility, aversion, etc., toward transgender people.
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
- tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
- tricone bit — A tricone bit is a drill bit with a head that is divided into three main parts.
- 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.
- troglobiont — any creature having a cave-dwelling mode of life.
- underbodice — a bodice worn under an outer bodice.
- unforbidden — a past participle of forbid.
- 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
- unobserving — not observing
- unobtrusive — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- verberation — a lashing, beating, or whipping
- vibrational — the act of vibrating.
- wind-broken — having the breathing impaired; affected with heaves.