12-letter words containing b, e, s, t, o
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- bottom house — the open space beneath a house built upon high pillars
- bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
- bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
- bovver boots — heavy boots worn by some teenage youths in Britain, used in gang fights
- bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
- boxer shorts — Boxer shorts are loose-fitting men's underpants that are shaped like the shorts worn by boxers.
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breaststroke — Breaststroke is a swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, moving your arms and legs horizontally in a circular motion.
- bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
- broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
- buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
- butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
- butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
- by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
- chatterboxes — Plural form of chatterbox.
- class object — (programming) In object-oriented programming, an object of class "class" that represents a class at run time. The existence of class objects allows introspection - the ability for a program to discover and modify attributes of its own code. (See self-modifying code). A class object may also be used for "housekeeping" tasks like keeping count of how many objects of the class have been created, though this may also be done by some kind of collection object. A class method is a method that operates on class objects.
- cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
- close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
- cluster bomb — A cluster bomb is a type of bomb which is dropped from an aircraft. It contains a large number of smaller bombs that spread out before they hit the ground.
- cobblestoned — Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
- cobblestones — Plural form of cobblestone.
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- cock lobster — a male lobster
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- collaborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collaborate.
- collectables — capable of being collected.
- collectibles — capable of being collected.
- combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- computer bus — bus
- contabescent — unable to produce pollen
- contrabasses — Plural form of contrabass.
- contrastable — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
- contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
- convertibles — Plural form of convertible.
- core subject — the three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
- corroborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corroborate.
- cost-benefit — denoting or relating to a method of assessing a project that takes into account its costs and its benefits to society as well as the revenue it generates
- costume ball — a fancy dress ball
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- courtesy bus — a free bus
- cristobalite — a white microcrystalline mineral consisting of silica and occurring in volcanic rocks. Formula: SiO2