12-letter words containing bon
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
- mastoid bone — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
- noncarbonate — That which is not a carbonate.
- oracle bones — animal bones used for divination
- paul-boncour — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1873–1972, French lawyer and statesman: premier 1932–33.
- payment bond — See under contract bond.
- peptide bond — a covalent bond formed by joining the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another, with the removal of a molecule of water.
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- radio-carbon — 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.
- revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
- ribbon cable — (hardware) A type of flat multicore cable with cores positioned side-by-side, making it quick and relatively easy to clamp an Insulation Displacement Connector (IDC) across all cores. Ribbon cables typically have grey insulation with cores on a 0.050" pitch and a red stripe marking Pin 1. They are less resilient than screened, multicore cable and are usually used inside equipment where little movement or plugging and unplugging are expected. A common use is connecting a disk drive to the motherboard in a PC.
- ribbon plant — spider plant (def 1).
- ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
- ribbon strip — ribbon (def 8).
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- running bond — a brickwork bond having successive courses of overlapping stretchers.
- samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
- savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- spun-bonding — a process for forming nonwoven fabrics, usually of limited durability, by bonding continuous-filament synthetic fibers immediately after extrusion.
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- summum bonum — the highest or chief good.
- t-bone steak — a loin steak having some tenderloin, characterized by its T -shaped bone.
- the sorbonne — a part of the University of Paris containing the faculties of science and literature: founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon as a theological college; given to the university in 1808