12-letter words containing b, l, o, a, t, e
- neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
- non-celibate — a person who abstains from sexual relations.
- non-dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- non-imitable — capable or worthy of being imitated: She has many good, imitable qualities.
- non-tangible — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
- nonbacterial — Not bacterial.
- nonheritable — Not heritable.
- nonvegetable — Not of or pertaining to vegetables.
- notabilities — Plural form of notability.
- note payable — A note payable is a written legal obligation to repay an amount of borrowed money at a particular future date.
- note verbale — a diplomatic communication prepared in the third person and unsigned: less formal than a note but more formal than an aide-mémoire.
- object glass — objective (def 3).
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- oblanceolate — inversely lanceolate, as a leaf.
- obliterating — Present participle of obliterate.
- obliteration — the act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated.
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- obtuse angle — an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
- octosyllable — a word or line of verse of eight syllables.
- on the table — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- osteoblastic — a bone-forming cell.
- out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
- palaeobotany — the study of fossil plants
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- rotary table — A rotary table is a revolving part which turns the drill string.
- 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.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- sublineation — an underlining
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- table d'hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.