11-letter words containing t, o, a, b
- on the beam — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
- on the beat — A police officer on the beat is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible.
- on the bias — A dress or skirt that is cut on the bias or that is bias-cut has been cut diagonally across the material so that it hangs down in a particular way.
- openability — The quality of being openable.
- operability — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
- optimizable — Capable of being optimized.
- order about — to bully or domineer
- orthoborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any anion derived from orthoboric acid; any salt containing this anion.
- osteoblasts — Plural form of osteoblast.
- otter board — one of a pair of large, heavy, square or rectangular plates or boards of metal or weighted wood attached to the trawl lines on each side of the mouth of a trawl net to maintain lateral spread during trawling.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- overballast — (transitive) To load with too much ballast.
- overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
- oveta hobby — Oveta Culp [kuhlp] /kʌlp/ (Show IPA), 1905–1995, U.S. newspaper publisher and government official: first director of Women's Army Corps 1942–45; first Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1953–55.
- oyster crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres ostreum, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of oysters.
- packet boat — a boat that travels a regular route, as along a coast or on a river, carrying passengers, freight, and mail
- paddle boat — small boat with pedals
- paleobotany — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil plants.
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- pathophobia — an irrational fear of disease
- patrol boat — a boat designed to patrol a coastal area, etc for security, observation and defence
- pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
- pedobaptist — a person who advocates or practices pedobaptism.
- penalty box — an enclosed space adjacent to the rink for penalized players, the penalty timekeeper, the game timekeeper, and the official scorer.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- photo album — bound book for photos
- photophobia — an abnormal sensitivity to or intolerance of light, as in iritis.
- picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
- pinot blanc — any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
- point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
- polar orbit — a spacecraft orbit that passes over, or close to, the geographic poles of the earth or some other celestial body.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- port talbot — a port in SE Wales, in Neath Port Talbot county borough on Swansea Bay: established as a coal port in the mid-19th century; large steelworks; ore terminal. Pop: 35 633 (2001)
- portability — the state or quality of being portable.
- postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
- postorbital — located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.
- potableness — the quality of being potable or drinkable
- potato bean — groundnut (def 1).
- pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- powerboater — a powerboat owner or operator.
- prelibation — a foretaste.
- proabortion — pro-choice.
- probability — the quality or fact of being probable.