12-letter words containing r, o, t, a, b, l
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
- frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- hexobarbital — a barbiturate with hypnotic and sedative properties
- honorability — (American spelling) Alternative form of honourability.
- infraorbital — (anatomy) Below the orbit (of the eye).
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- interorbital — Between orbitals.
- interpolable — able to be interpolated, or suited to interpolation
- interrogable — capable of being interrogated
- isobilateral — (esp of a leaf) capable of being divided into symmetrical halves along two different planes
- labor market — the available supply of labor considered with reference to the demand for it.
- laboratorial — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- laboratorian — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- laboratories — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
- labrador tea — a North American bog shrub, Ledum groenlandicum, of the heath family, having evergreen leaves and rounded clusters of white flowers.
- late bloomer — a person whose talents or capabilities are slow to develop: A late bloomer, she wrote her first novel when she was almost 50.
- lay store by — to value or reckon as important
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- liberational — Relating to, or aiding, liberation; liberatory.
- liberty loan — any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.
- lobster tail — the flesh of the tail of any of various crustaceans, esp. the Cape crawfish, prepared as food, often by broiling in the shell
- lord's table — the, communion table.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- microtubular — Of or pertaining to microtubules.
- multilobular — having several or many lobules.
- natural-born — native-born.
- neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
- nonbacterial — Not bacterial.
- nonheritable — Not heritable.
- note verbale — a diplomatic communication prepared in the third person and unsigned: less formal than a note but more formal than an aide-mémoire.
- obligatorily — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- obliterating — Present participle of obliterate.
- obliteration — the act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated.