12-letter words containing o, b, t
- octosyllable — a word or line of verse of eight syllables.
- odontoblasts — Plural form of odontoblast.
- odontophobia — an unnatural dread or terror of teeth
- of o's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- of substance — wealthy
- off the beam — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
- on probation — under the supervision of a probation officer
- on sb's part — If you talk about a feeling or action on someone's part, you are referring to something that they feel or do.
- on the bench — a long seat for several persons: a bench in the park.
- on the blink — to open and close the eye, especially involuntarily; wink rapidly and repeatedly.
- on the block — for sale at auction
- on the books — registered
- on the brain — constantly in mind
- on the table — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- one-base hit — single (def 24).
- oneg shabbat — a Jewish celebration in honor of the Sabbath that takes place on Friday evening or Saturday afternoon and usually includes a program of songs, a lecture, and refreshments.
- opposability — capable of being placed opposite to something else: the opposable thumb of primates.
- orbicularity — The quality of being orbicular.
- orbital road — a highway that circles a metropolitan area; ring road
- orthorhombic — noting or pertaining to a system of crystallization characterized by three unequal axes intersecting at right angles; rhombic; trimetric.
- osteoblastic — a bone-forming cell.
- out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
- out of plumb — not vertical
- out-building — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- over-trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- paedobaptist — a person who baptizes infants
- palaeobotany — the study of fossil plants
- panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
- pastry board — a flat board on which pastry is rolled
- pathobiology — pathology with emphasis on the biological aspects of disease
- pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
- pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
- payment bond — See under contract bond.
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- peptide bond — a covalent bond formed by joining the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another, with the removal of a molecule of water.
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- peroxyborate — perborate.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.