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12-letter words containing o, b, s, t

  • borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
  • bossier city — city in NW La., on the Red River opposite Shreveport: pop. 56,000
  • botrytis rot — a disease of many plants caused by fungi of the genus Botrytis, characterized by leaf blight, a tan-gray moldlike surface growth, and the rotting of stems and storage organs.
  • bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
  • bottom house — the open space beneath a house built upon high pillars
  • bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
  • bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
  • bovver boots — heavy boots worn by some teenage youths in Britain, used in gang fights
  • bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
  • boxer shorts — Boxer shorts are loose-fitting men's underpants that are shaped like the shorts worn by boxers.
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breaststroke — Breaststroke is a swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, moving your arms and legs horizontally in a circular motion.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
  • brontosaurus — any very large herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus, common in North America during Jurassic times, having a long neck and long tail: suborder Sauropoda (sauropods)
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
  • burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • bus topology — bus
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
  • bypass ratio — the ratio of the amount of air that bypasses the combustion chambers of an aircraft gas turbine to that passing through them
  • cabot strait — a channel in Canada, connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. 68 miles (109 km) wide.
  • cactoblastis — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum of South America, that was introduced into Australia to act as a biological control on the prickly pear
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
  • carbocations — Plural form of carbocation.
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
  • cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
  • chatterboxes — Plural form of chatterbox.
  • chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
  • class object — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, an object of class "class" that represents a class at run time. The existence of class objects allows introspection - the ability for a program to discover and modify attributes of its own code. (See self-modifying code). A class object may also be used for "housekeeping" tasks like keeping count of how many objects of the class have been created, though this may also be done by some kind of collection object. A class method is a method that operates on class objects.
  • cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
  • close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
  • clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
  • cluster bomb — A cluster bomb is a type of bomb which is dropped from an aircraft. It contains a large number of smaller bombs that spread out before they hit the ground.
  • cobblestoned — Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
  • cobblestones — Plural form of cobblestone.
  • cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
  • cock lobster — a male lobster
  • cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
  • collaborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collaborate.
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