12-letter words containing n, o, b, t
- quotableness — the condition or quality of being quotable
- rabbet joint — a joint between rabbeted parts.
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
- redoublement — the act of redoubling
- renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- reset button — control that restores a default setting
- 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
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- 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.
- sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
- satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
- scent bottle — a bottle of perfume
- 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.
- skeleton bob — a small sledge for racing over a frozen track, steered by the rider by movements of the head and shoulders
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- snout beetle — weevil (def 1).
- 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
- somnambulant — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- 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.
- stephen jobs — (person) Stephen P. Jobs (born 24 February 1955). The co-founder and ex-president of Apple Computer, leader of the team that produced the Macintosh. In 1979, when he was president of Apple, Steven Jobs saw a demonstration of Smalltalk at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He and other Apple employees were "very impressed with the unique and revolutionary user-friendly design". The first Macintosh was released in January 1984. Jobs described it as insanely great. Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded Next, Inc.. In December 1996 he was re-employed by Apple when they bought NeXT. See also lithium lick, Mathematica.
- 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.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- strobe tuner — an electronic instrument tuner that uses stroboscopic light
- strobilation — asexual reproduction by division into segments, as in tapeworms and jellyfishes
- stubbornness — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- student body — all the students enrolled at an educational institution.
- 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.
- stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- 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.
- subcomponent — a constituent part; element; ingredient.