12-letter words containing o, b, t
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flamboyantly — In a flamboyant manner.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- floatability — capable of floating; that can be floated.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- flood basalt — a very extensive lava flow of basaltic composition that has issued from a fissure, often to be found as part of a series of such flows one on top of another, forming a plateau
- flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- foggy bottom — a low-lying area bordering the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
- foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
- foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
- for the best — of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
- forebodement — The act of foreboding.
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
- front bottom — the female genitals
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
- frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- gamboge tree — any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Garcinia, esp G. hanburyi, that yield this resin: family Clusiaceae
- gemel bottle — a bottle consisting of two flasks set side by side with the necks curving in opposite directions.
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- glioblastoma — A highly invasive glioma in the brain.
- globetrotter — a person who travels regularly or frequently to countries all over the world.
- gnotobiotics — the study of organisms living in germ-free conditions or when inoculated with known microorganisms
- go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- greenbottles — Plural form of greenbottle.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- habilitation — to clothe or dress.
- habitational — a place of residence; dwelling; abode.
- hack to bits — to damage severely
- haematoblast — any of the undifferentiated cells in the bone marrow that develop into blood cells
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half-brother — brother (def 2).