12-letter words containing o, n, t, a
- boating trip — a trip or holiday in a boat such as a sailing boat or canal boat
- boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
- bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- boxing match — a competition between two boxers
- brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
- bring action — to start a lawsuit
- bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
- broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
- bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
- bromomethane — methyl bromide.
- brontosaurus — any very large herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus, common in North America during Jurassic times, having a long neck and long tail: suborder Sauropoda (sauropods)
- brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
- buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
- cachinnation — raucous laughter
- cachinnatory — Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
- cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
- calculations — Plural form of calculation.
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- caliginosity — darkness
- call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
- call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
- calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
- camphorating — Present participle of camphorate.
- canalisation — The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.
- canalization — the act of canalizing
- cancellation — the fact or an instance of cancelling
- canine tooth — canine (def 2).
- canonisation — Alternative spelling of canonization.
- canonization — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.