12-letter words containing b, e, t, o, n
- country-bred — brought up in the country
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- debilitation — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
- decarbonated — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonate.
- deliberation — Deliberation is the long and careful consideration of a subject.
- demibastions — Plural form of demibastion.
- demonstrable — A demonstrable fact or quality can be shown to be true or to exist.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- detonability — the quality of being detonable
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- do one's bit — a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- donets basin — a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- ectosymbiont — (biology) A partner in a symbiotic relationship that remains on the surface of its host or occupies a body cavity.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emblazonment — The act of emblazoning.
- embolization — (surgery) A nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedure that effects the selective occlusion of blood vessels by purposely introducing emboli.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- en brochette — (esp of meat) roasted or grilled on a skewer
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- enjoyability — The state or condition of being enjoyable.
- enterobacter — Any bacterium of the genus Enterobacter.
- enterobiasis — a disease, common in children, caused by infestation of the large intestine with nematodes of the genus Enterobius, esp the pinworm (E. vermicularis)
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
- exhibitioner — A student who has been awarded an exhibition (scholarship).
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- exprobration — the act of reproaching
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- forebodement — The act of foreboding.
- fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
- frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany