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

  • port de bras — (used with a singular verb) the technique of moving the arms properly.
  • port moresby — an independent republic in the W Pacific Ocean, comprising the E part of New Guinea and numerous near-lying islands, including the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, the Trobriand Islands, and Bougainville and Buka in the Solomon Islands: a former Australian Trusteeship Territory; independent since 1975; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 178,260 sq. mi. (461,693 sq. km). Capital: Port Moresby.
  • post-puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
  • postabortion — Also called voluntary abortion. the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.
  • postbiblical — occurring after the events written about in the Bible, occurring after the Bible was written
  • postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
  • poster board — a thick, fairly stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together and typically used to support displays.
  • preset board — a control board for setting up theatrical lighting switches and dimmer readings in advance so that during a performance the lights can be automatically operated for one or several scenes.
  • press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • 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
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
  • reset button — control that restores a default setting
  • ribbon strip — ribbon (def 8).
  • riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
  • 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.
  • rubber boots — wellingtons: footwear worn in rain
  • 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
  • scotch broom — the broom, Cytisus scoparius.
  • scotch broth — a thick soup prepared from mutton, vegetables, and barley.
  • scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
  • 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.
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • section boss — the boss of a section gang.
  • set store by — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
  • shooting box — a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.
  • short ballot — a ballot containing only candidates for the most important legislative and executive posts, leaving judicial and lesser administrative posts to be filled by appointment.
  • shut-out bid — a pre-emptive bid
  • 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.
  • skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
  • skeleton bob — a small sledge for racing over a frozen track, steered by the rider by movements of the head and shoulders
  • sketch-books — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
  • 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
  • soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
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