12-letter words containing t, a, b, l
- talking book — a phonograph record or tape recording of readings of a book, magazine, etc., made especially for use by the blind.
- tattie-bogle — a scarecrow
- tavern table — a short table having a narrow, deep apron and legs connected by a box stretcher.
- teachability — capable of being instructed, as a person; docile.
- technobabble — incomprehensible technical language or jargon.
- temptability — the state of being liable to temptation
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the bastille — a state prison in Paris that was stormed and destroyed (1789) in the French Revolution: its destruction is commemorated on Bastille Day, July 14
- the disabled — those who are physically or mentally disabled; the handicapped
- the-bell-jar — a novel (1963) by Sylvia Plath.
- 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).
- thiobacillus — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus, inhabiting soil, sewage, etc., that derive energy from oxidation of sulfur or sulfur compounds.
- throttleable — capable of having the thrust varied.
- tie-on label — a label that is fastened by tying on
- timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
- tip-up table — a pedestal table having a top folding downward in two leaves.
- to jump bail — If a prisoner jumps bail, he or she does not come back for his or her trial after being released on bail.
- to play ball — If someone refuses to play ball, they are unwilling to do what someone wants them to do.
- tobacco leaf — the leaves of the tobacco plant, used for the production of cigarettes and tobacco
- toilet table — a low table with mirror or mirrors where you sit while dressing or applying makeup
- tolerability — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- tom o'bedlam — a roving beggar afflicted with or feigning madness.
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- 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.
- touchability — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- toynbee hall — a residential settlement in East London, named after Arnold Toynbee (1852–83), a British economist and social reformer
- trabeculated — having trabeculae, transversely barred
- traceability — capable of being traced.
- trachybasalt — a fine-grained volcanic rock containing sanidine and calcic plagioclase.
- trackability — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- tractability — easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.
- trailblazing — to blaze a trail through (a forest, wilderness, or the like) for others to follow.
- trainability — capable of being trained.
- transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- translatable — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
- transpirable — to occur; happen; take place.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- treatability — able to be treated, especially medically: Some diseases are treatable but not curable.
- treble staff — a staff, bearing a treble clef.
- 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.
- trustability — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- tube railway — subway (def 1).
- tuberculated — bearing tubercles, knobbly projections or excrescences
- tubular bell — Often, tubular bells. one of a set of tuned metal tubes of different lengths used as a musical instrument, suspended vertically from a frame and struck with a mallet to produce sounds or melodies.
- tubulifloral — (of a plant) tubuliflorous
- tumbler gear — a transmission having gears actuated by a tumbler.
- turbellarian — belonging to the Turbellaria, a class of platyhelminths or flatworms, mostly aquatic and having cilia on the body surface.
- 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.