12-letter words containing o, b, t, a
- timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
- timbromaniac — a person who is passionate about stamp-collecting
- to jump bail — If a prisoner jumps bail, he or she does not come back for his or her trial after being released on bail.
- to play ball — If someone refuses to play ball, they are unwilling to do what someone wants them to do.
- to sb's face — If you say something to someone's face, you say it openly in their presence.
- tobacco leaf — the leaves of the tobacco plant, used for the production of cigarettes and tobacco
- tobacco road — a squalid and impoverished rural community.
- toboggan run — a slope that you can slide down on a toboggan
- toilet table — a low table with mirror or mirrors where you sit while dressing or applying makeup
- tolerability — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- tom o'bedlam — a roving beggar afflicted with or feigning madness.
- tombstone ad — a boxed advertisement without artwork or illustrations, especially one announcing an issue of a stock or bond.
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- tornado belt — the part of the U.S. in which tornadoes occur most frequently, roughly the area within a 500-mile (805-km) radius of southern Missouri.
- torpedo boat — a small, fast, highly maneuverable boat used for torpedoing enemy shipping.
- touchability — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- toxicophobia — an intense fear of poisoning
- toynbee hall — a residential settlement in East London, named after Arnold Toynbee (1852–83), a British economist and social reformer
- transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- tree tobacco — a treelike South American plant, Nicotiana glauca, of the nightshade family, having blue-green foliage, heart-shaped leaves, and white, greenish-yellow, or purple flowers, the corolla yellow, grown as an ornamental.
- tribological — relating to tribology
- trombidiasis — infestation with mites of the family Trombiculidae
- troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- tube station — an underground station where underground trains depart and leave, esp in London
- tubocurarine — the principal active alkaloid of curare, C 38 H 44 Cl 2 N 2 O, used as a muscle relaxant, especially as an adjunct to anesthesia.
- tubulifloral — (of a plant) tubuliflorous
- turbinacious — with a peaty aroma or flavour
- turbo pascal — (language, product) Borland International's Pascal. Perhaps the first integrated development environment for MS-DOS. Versions 1.0-3.0: standard Pascal with a few extensions Versions 4.0 (1987) and 5.0: separate compilation. Version 5.5: object-oriented. Version 6.0: Turbo Vision OOP library.
- turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- turbocharger — a supercharger that is driven by a turbine turned by exhaust gases from the engine.
- two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
- umbilication — a central navellike depression.
- unactionable — furnishing ground for a lawsuit.
- uncomputable — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- unconfutable — to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove: to confute an argument.
- unelaborated — not elaborated
- unfathomable — not able to be fathomed, or completely understood; incomprehensible: heroism in the face of unfathomable conflict.
- unflamboyant — not flamboyant
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unnegotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- unnoticeable — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- unnoticeably — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- unobligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- unobtainable — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
- unrestorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.