11-letter words containing r, o, b, c
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- projectable — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
- protectable — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- protectible — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- public room — a lounge or other room that is open to all, especially in a hotel or on a ship.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- radiocarbon — Also called carbon 14. a radioactive isotope of carbon with mass number 14 and a half-life of about 5730 years: widely used in the dating of organic materials.
- rebroadcast — to broadcast again from the same station.
- recipe book — a book containing lists of ingredients and directions for making different food dishes
- recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
- record book — log
- recoverable — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- relocatable — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
- rhabdocoele — any member of the turbellarian flatworm order Neorhabdocoela, comprising both freshwater and marine species, having a simple saclike digestive system.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- ribbon copy — the original copy of a number of typewritten copies (distinguished from carbon copy).
- ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
- rich object — In artificial intelligence, an object which cannot be completely described or represented but about which assertions can be made.
- robber crab — a terrestrial crab, Birgus latro, of the Indo-Pacific region, known for its habit of climbing coconut palms to feed on the nuts
- robotically — in a robotic manner
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rock blenny — a prickleback, Xiphister mucosus, of the Pacific coast from southern California to Alaska.
- rock bottom — lowest possible price
- rock rabbit — rock hyrax.
- rock-bottom — at the lowest possible limit or level; extremely low: rock-bottom prices.
- rock-ribbed — having ribs or ridges of rock: the rock-ribbed coast of Maine.
- rocket bomb — an aerial bomb equipped with a rocket for added velocity after being dropped from an aircraft.
- roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
- rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.
- rowing club — rowboat association
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- saprobiotic — saprobic
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- 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.
- scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
- serbo-croat — Serbo-Croat is one of the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- sorbic acid — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 8 O 2 , slightly soluble in water, soluble in many organic solvents: used as a preservative in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food.
- source book — an original writing, as a document, record, or diary, that supplies an authoritative basis for future writing, study, evaluation, etc.
- space probe — Aerospace. an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth.
- stereobatic — relating to or resembling a stereobate
- stockbroker — a broker, especially one employed by a member firm of a stock exchange, who buys and sells stocks and other securities for customers.
- stockjobber — a stock salesperson, especially one who sells or promotes worthless securities.