12-letter words containing o, b, t, a
- 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.
- powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- 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.
- probationary — the act of testing.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
- 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.
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- protuberancy — protuberance.
- pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
- 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
- rabbet joint — a joint between rabbeted parts.
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rattail comb — a comb for the hair having a narrow, pointed handle used in styling the hair.
- reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
- renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- reverberator — to reecho or resound: Her singing reverberated through the house.
- ribbon plant — spider plant (def 1).
- robotization — the introduction of robots to carry out industrial tasks
- rotary table — A rotary table is a revolving part which turns the drill string.
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- somnambulant — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- south arabia — Protectorate of, a former protectorate of Great Britain in S Arabia, now part of the Republic of Yemen.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
- stabilizator — a stabilizer