12-letter words containing o, b, s, l, e, t
- jettisonable — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- laboratories — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- last but one — next to last
- lay store by — to value or reckon as important
- lobster moth — a large sombre-hued prominent moth, Stauropus fagi, that when at rest resembles dead leaves. The modified thoracic legs of the larva, carried curled over its body, look like a lobster's claw
- lobster roll — lobster salad served on a frankfurter roll or the like.
- lobster tail — the flesh of the tail of any of various crustaceans, esp. the Cape crawfish, prepared as food, often by broiling in the shell
- lord's table — the, communion table.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- melanoblasts — Plural form of melanoblast.
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
- metabolomics — the study of all the metabolites present in cells, tissues, and organs
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- mosbolletjie — (South Africa) Dough leavened with the must of grapes used for making rusks.
- nebulosities — Plural form of nebulosity.
- neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
- non-obsolete — no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
- notabilities — Plural form of notability.
- object glass — objective (def 3).
- obsoleteness — no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
- obtuse angle — an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
- octosyllable — a word or line of verse of eight syllables.
- osteoblastic — a bone-forming cell.
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
- plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- 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
- rock lobster — spiny lobster.
- roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- scent bottle — a bottle of perfume
- 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.
- 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).
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- sublineation — an underlining