12-letter words containing o, b, t
- timberdoodle — the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
- timbrologist — a stamp-collector
- timbromaniac — a person who is passionate about stamp-collecting
- to be honest — in truth
- 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 know best — If you say that a particular person knows best, you mean that they have a lot of experience and should therefore be trusted to make decisions for other people.
- 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.
- to think big — If you think big, you make plans on a large scale, often using a lot of time, effort, or money.
- 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.
- tool subject — a subject that, when mastered, equips students with a skill useful in studying other subjects: Grammar is a tool subject for English composition.
- 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.
- torpedo tube — a tube through which a self-propelled torpedo is launched, usually by the explosion of a charge of powder.
- torres bodet — Jaime [hahy-me] /ˈhaɪ mɛ/ (Show IPA), 1902–74, Mexican poet, statesman, and diplomat.
- touch bottom — to run aground
- 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.
- tribespeople — members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle
- tribological — relating to tribology
- triple bogey — a score of three strokes over par on a hole.
- trombidiasis — infestation with mites of the family Trombiculidae
- trophobiosis — the exchange of nourishment between organisms in a symbiotic relationship
- trophobiotic — involving, belonging or relating to trophobiosis
- trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
- trouble-free — not problematic
- trouble-torn — afflicted with trouble, disorder or unrest
- troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- troubleproof — not easily disturbed, disabled, injured, or put out of working order.
- troubleshoot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- truck jobber — a jobber or wholesaler who makes calls carrying goods on a truck, thereby being able to take and deliver orders on the same call.
- tube station — an underground station where underground trains depart and leave, esp in London
- tuberculosed — tuberculous
- tuberculosis — an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
- tuberiferous — bearing or producing tubers
- 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.
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- tubulifloral — (of a plant) tubuliflorous
- tumbling box — a box, pivoted at two corners, used in the manner of a tumbling barrel.