12-letter words containing n, o, b, i, t
- 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.
- rabbet joint — a joint between rabbeted parts.
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
- renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- ribbon plant — spider plant (def 1).
- ribbon strip — ribbon (def 8).
- riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
- robotization — the introduction of robots to carry out industrial tasks
- rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
- ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
- sailing boat — sailboat.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- section boss — the boss of a section gang.
- shooting box — a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.
- sino-tibetan — a family of languages including especially Burmese, Tibetan, and the various local languages and dialects whose speakers share literary Chinese as their standard language.
- snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
- snowmobilist — a person who drives a snowmobile, a snowmobiler
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
- stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
- strobilation — asexual reproduction by division into segments, as in tapeworms and jellyfishes
- stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
- sub-function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- subarcuation — a structure that is somewhat arched
- subcommunity — a self-contained community usually within the suburbs of a large urban area.
- subcontinent — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- subhastation — a public auction or sale
- subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- sublineation — an underlining
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subordinator — a conjunction introducing a subordinate clause, as when in They were glad when I finished.
- subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- substitution — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- substraction — the act or process of subtracting
- substruction — a foundation or substructure.
- talking book — a phonograph record or tape recording of readings of a book, magazine, etc., made especially for use by the blind.
- teaching job — a position as a teacher