12-letter words containing r, o, b, c
- mycobacteria — Plural form of mycobacterium.
- non-credible — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.
- nonbacterial — Not bacterial.
- nonbreaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- nonbroadcast — not broadcast to a wide audience, supplied on a hidden or private network
- noncarbonate — That which is not a carbonate.
- noncelebrity — a person who is not a celebrity
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nonmicrobial — not microbial, not caused by or related to microbes
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
- objectbroker — (programming) A distributed object system from DEC based on the CORBA standard.
- objectcenter — A product offering similar facilities to CodeCenter for the C++ language, plus class browsing facilities etc (formerly Saber-C++).
- objecteering — (programming, tool) An object-oriented design tool from Softeam, based on the Class Relation Methodology, with C++ code generation.
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
- obstetrician — a physician who specializes in obstetrics. Abbreviation: OB, ob.
- obstructions — Plural form of obstruction.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- oracle bones — animal bones used for divination
- orbicularity — The quality of being orbicular.
- orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- orthorhombic — noting or pertaining to a system of crystallization characterized by three unequal axes intersecting at right angles; rhombic; trimetric.
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- overbearance — (rare, or, obsolete) Overbearing behaviour; arrogance; imperiousness.
- paul-boncour — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1873–1972, French lawyer and statesman: premier 1932–33.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- polysaprobic — flourishing in a body of water having a heavy load of decomposed organic matter and almost no free oxygen
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
- procarbazine — a drug used in the treatment of cancer, esp lymphomas
- proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- protuberancy — protuberance.
- public works — government-funded construction
- radar beacon — a radar device at a fixed location that, on receiving a radar signal, automatically transmits a particular radar signal in reply, identifying itself and enabling navigators of ships and aircraft to determine their distance and direction from it.
- radio beacon — a radio station that sends a characteristic signal so as to enable ships or airplanes to determine their position or bearing by means of a radio compass.