12-letter words containing n, o, t, b, e
- section boss — the boss of a section gang.
- 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
- snout beetle — weevil (def 1).
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- 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
- 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
- stubbornness — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- student body — all the students enrolled at an educational institution.
- stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- subcomponent — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- subcontinent — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
- subcutaneous — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- 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.
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- t-bone steak — a loin steak having some tenderloin, characterized by its T -shaped bone.
- teaching job — a position as a teacher
- technobabble — incomprehensible technical language or jargon.
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- technophobia — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
- teeny bopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
- teeny-bopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
- tennis elbow — irritation of the synovial membrane, or joint rotary area, of the elbow, caused by immoderate motions while playing tennis or other sports; epicondylitis.
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- the sorbonne — a part of the University of Paris containing the faculties of science and literature: founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon as a theological college; given to the university in 1808
- tie-on label — a label that is fastened by tying on
- timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
- to be honest — in truth
- to know best — If you say that a particular person knows best, you mean that they have a lot of experience and should therefore be trusted to make decisions for other people.
- tombstone ad — a boxed advertisement without artwork or illustrations, especially one announcing an issue of a stock or bond.
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- 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.
- toynbee hall — a residential settlement in East London, named after Arnold Toynbee (1852–83), a British economist and social reformer
- transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- trouble-torn — afflicted with trouble, disorder or unrest