12-letter words containing t, e, l, b, o
- double quote — (character) '"' ASCII character 34. Often used in programming languages to delimit strings. In Unix shells and Perl it delimits a string inside which variable substitution may occur. Common names: quote. Rare: literal mark; double-glitch; ITU-T: quotation marks; ITU-T: dieresis; dirk; INTERCAL: rabbit-ears; double prime.
- double steal — a play in which two base runners steal a base each.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- ebracteolate — having no bractlets
- ebulliometer — a device used to determine the boiling point of a solution
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emblazonment — The act of emblazoning.
- embolization — (surgery) A nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedure that effects the selective occlusion of blood vessels by purposely introducing emboli.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- enjoyability — The state or condition of being enjoyable.
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- evolvability — (biology) The ability of a particular organism to evolve.
- exobiologist — A biologist whose speciality is exobiology.
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- false bottom — a horizontal partition above the actual bottom of a box, trunk, etc., especially one forming a secret compartment.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
- 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.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- 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.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- gemel bottle — a bottle consisting of two flasks set side by side with the necks curving in opposite directions.
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- globetrotter — a person who travels regularly or frequently to countries all over the world.
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- greenbottles — Plural form of greenbottle.
- haematoblast — any of the undifferentiated cells in the bone marrow that develop into blood cells
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- hambletonian — one of a superior strain of American trotting horses descended from the stallion Hambletonian.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
- hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.