12-letter words containing t, b, o, n
- exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
- exhibitioner — A student who has been awarded an exhibition (scholarship).
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- exprobration — the act of reproaching
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flamboyantly — In a flamboyant manner.
- 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.
- foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
- forebodement — The act of foreboding.
- fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
- front bottom — the female genitals
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- 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.
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- gnotobiotics — the study of organisms living in germ-free conditions or when inoculated with known microorganisms
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- greenbottles — Plural form of greenbottle.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- habilitation — to clothe or dress.
- habitational — a place of residence; dwelling; abode.
- hambletonian — one of a superior strain of American trotting horses descended from the stallion Hambletonian.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- hessian boot — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hiking boots — stout, sturdy boots, suitable for hiking in
- hobnail boot — a boot with a hobnail in the sole
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honor bright — upon my honor; really and truly: I did sweep the floor, honor bright.
- honorability — (American spelling) Alternative form of honourability.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.