13-letter words containing t, b, o
- exceptionable — Open to objection; causing disapproval or offense.
- executive job — a job in which a person is responsible for the administration of a project, activity, or business
- exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
- exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.
- exhibitionist — A person who behaves in an extravagant way in order to attract attention.
- exportability — The property of being exportable.
- faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
- fantabulously — In a fantabulous manner; fantastically, wonderfully.
- farm-to-table — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
- flag football — a form of touch football in which the ball-carrier's progress is stopped when an opponent pulls a flag from the ball-carrier's pocket or belt.
- flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
- flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
- float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- flower beetle — any of numerous, usually brightly colored beetles, as of the families Malachiidae and Dasytidae, that live on flowers and are predaceous on other insects.
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
- fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
- fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
- foot the bill — pay the costs
- football game — soccer match
- for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
- fort dearborn — a former U.S. fort on the site of Chicago, 1803–37.
- forthbringing — Present participle of forthbring.
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
- funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- get a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- give birth to — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- globalisation — internationalisation
- globalization — the act of globalizing, or extending to other or all parts of the world: the globalization of manufacturing.
- globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
- globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
- globe-trotter — a person who travels widely about the world, esp. for pleasure
- globetrotters — Plural form of globetrotter.
- globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.