12-letter words containing r, o, t, a, b, l
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- orbicularity — The quality of being orbicular.
- orbital road — a highway that circles a metropolitan area; ring road
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- rattail comb — a comb for the hair having a narrow, pointed handle used in styling the hair.
- renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- ribbon plant — spider plant (def 1).
- rotary table — A rotary table is a revolving part which turns the drill string.
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- short ballot — a ballot containing only candidates for the most important legislative and executive posts, leaving judicial and lesser administrative posts to be filled by appointment.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
- stabilizator — a stabilizer
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- strobilation — asexual reproduction by division into segments, as in tapeworms and jellyfishes
- sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
- supraorbital — situated above the eye socket.
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- symbololatry — the worship of symbols
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- tribological — relating to tribology
- troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- tubulifloral — (of a plant) tubuliflorous
- turbo pascal — (language, product) Borland International's Pascal. Perhaps the first integrated development environment for MS-DOS. Versions 1.0-3.0: standard Pascal with a few extensions Versions 4.0 (1987) and 5.0: separate compilation. Version 5.5: object-oriented. Version 6.0: Turbo Vision OOP library.
- unelaborated — not elaborated
- unobligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of