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.