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12-letter words containing l, a, b, o, r, t

  • obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
  • orbicularity — The quality of being orbicular.
  • orbital road — a highway that circles a metropolitan area; ring road
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • supraorbital — situated above the eye socket.
  • surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • symbololatry — the worship of symbols
  • table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
  • thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).
  • thermostable — capable of being subjected to a moderate degree of heat without loss of characteristic properties, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermolabile).
  • throttleable — capable of having the thrust varied.
  • timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
  • tolerability — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
  • tornado belt — the part of the U.S. in which tornadoes occur most frequently, roughly the area within a 500-mile (805-km) radius of southern Missouri.
  • transponible — capable of being transposed.
  • tribological — relating to tribology
  • troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tubulifloral — (of a plant) tubuliflorous
  • turbo pascal — (language, product)   Borland International's Pascal. Perhaps the first integrated development environment for MS-DOS. Versions 1.0-3.0: standard Pascal with a few extensions Versions 4.0 (1987) and 5.0: separate compilation. Version 5.5: object-oriented. Version 6.0: Turbo Vision OOP library.
  • unelaborated — not elaborated
  • unobligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
  • unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
  • unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
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