12-letter words containing b, e, t, o
- union buster — any of a group of persons hired by a company to disperse picketers, end a strike or job action, etc., especially by violence or intimidation.
- unnegotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- unnoticeable — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- unnoticeably — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- unobstructed — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unobtainable — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
- unrestorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- untroubledly — in an untroubled manner
- urban forest — the trees and plants within a city.
- urbi et orbi — to the city and the world: a phrase qualifying the solemn papal blessing
- vector boson — one of the three particles that are believed to transmit the weak force: the positively charged W particle, the negatively charged W particle, and the neutral Z 0 particle.
- vedette boat — a small patrol vessel
- vertebration — vertebrate formation.
- vuelta abajo — a region in W Cuba.
- water bomber — an aircraft with special tanks for holding water that can be dropped on forest fires
- water bottle — container that holds drinking water
- water bouget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
- waterboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of waterboard.
- weather bomb — a type of extratropical cyclone characterized by a low pressure system in which the central barometric pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours, which can produce hurricane-force winds with very heavy rainfall or snow.
- weatherboard — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- western blot — a highly sensitive procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific protein in a mixed extract, as in testing for AIDS virus protein in a blood sample: proteins are separated by gel electrophoresis and transferred to a special filter paper, on which the protein under investigation can be detected by a probe, as the binding of a labeled antibody.
- whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
- white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
- whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
- winterbourne — a channel filled only at a time of excessive rainfall.
- witch hobble — the hobblebush.
- woodburytype — a process using gelatine film exposed to the negative, which is then pressed into lead and processed, or a print of this type
- world beater — If you describe a person or thing as a world beater, you mean that they are better than most other people or things of their kind.
- world-beater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.