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12-letter words containing r, e, t, o, b

  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • set store by — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
  • skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
  • steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
  • stockbreeder — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
  • stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
  • storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
  • store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
  • strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • strobe tuner — an electronic instrument tuner that uses stroboscopic light
  • strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • stubbornness — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
  • sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
  • sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
  • subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
  • subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
  • subintroduce — to introduce subtly
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
  • surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
  • takeover bid — offer to buy a company
  • teeny bopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
  • teeny-bopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
  • teratophobia — fear of giving birth to a monster
  • the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
  • the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • the sorbonne — a part of the University of Paris containing the faculties of science and literature: founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon as a theological college; given to the university in 1808
  • the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
  • thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).
  • thermostable — capable of being subjected to a moderate degree of heat without loss of characteristic properties, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermolabile).
  • thiobacteria — bacteria found esp. in stagnant water and at the bottom of the sea, that oxidize or reduce sulfur compounds, as hydrogen sulfide
  • thoroughbred — of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
  • thrombectomy — surgical removal of a blood clot from a blood vessel.
  • throttleable — capable of having the thrust varied.
  • timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
  • timberdoodle — the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
  • tolerability — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
  • 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.
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