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

  • peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
  • phlebography — venography.
  • phone number — of individual, business
  • pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
  • pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
  • reproachable — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
  • rhabdosphere — a minute sphere made up of rhabdoliths
  • rhombohedral — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
  • rhombohedron — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
  • ride a hobby — to be excessively devoted to one's favorite pastime or subject
  • robert hooke — Robert, 1635–1703, English philosopher, microscopist, and physicist.
  • safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
  • schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • shepherd boy — male child who herds sheep
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
  • shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
  • shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
  • snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
  • sober-headed — characterized by clear, logical thinking; not fanciful or capricious.
  • sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
  • soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
  • 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-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.
  • subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
  • 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.
  • troubleshoot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
  • turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
  • turbocharger — a supercharger that is driven by a turbine turned by exhaust gases from the engine.
  • unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
  • weather bomb — a type of extratropical cyclone characterized by a low pressure system in which the central barometric pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours, which can produce hurricane-force winds with very heavy rainfall or snow.
  • weatherboard — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
  • webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
  • whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
  • wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
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