12-letter words containing a, b, l, o, t
- outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
- palaeobotany — the study of fossil plants
- pathobiology — pathology with emphasis on the biological aspects of disease
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- phantom limb — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of pain, discomfort, or other sensation in the area of a missing limb or other body part, as a breast.
- photolyzable — able to undergo photolysis
- plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
- plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- plymouth bay — a small, well-protected bay on the coast of Massachusetts; the first permanent European settlement in New England; founded by the Pilgrim Fathers.
- port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
- postbiblical — occurring after the events written about in the Bible, occurring after the Bible was written
- 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
- problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
- 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.
- pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
- questionable — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- questionably — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- quotableness — the condition or quality of being quotable
- rattail comb — a comb for the hair having a narrow, pointed handle used in styling the hair.
- renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- ribbon plant — spider plant (def 1).
- rotary table — A rotary table is a revolving part which turns the drill string.
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- sailing boat — sailboat.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- short ballot — a ballot containing only candidates for the most important legislative and executive posts, leaving judicial and lesser administrative posts to be filled by appointment.
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- somnambulant — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
- stabilizator — a stabilizer
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- strobilation — asexual reproduction by division into segments, as in tapeworms and jellyfishes
- sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
- subapostolic — of or relating to the era after that of the Apostles
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- sublineation — an underlining