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12-letter words containing t, i, b, o

  • bloodthirsty — Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
  • bloody shirt — something, as a political issue or historical event, that can be used to stir up outrage, partisan support, etc.
  • blossom into — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
  • blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
  • blue melilot — a European plant, Trigonella caerulea, of the legume family, having long-stalked clusters of blue and white flowers.
  • blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • boar-hunting — the practice of hunting wild boars
  • boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
  • boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
  • boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
  • boating trip — a trip or holiday in a boat such as a sailing boat or canal boat
  • boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
  • body politic — The body politic is all the people of a nation when they are considered as a complete political group.
  • bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
  • boil down to — If you say that a situation or problem boils down to a particular thing or can be boiled down to a particular thing, you mean that this is the most important or the most basic aspect of it.
  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • boletic acid — fumaric acid.
  • bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
  • bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
  • bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
  • bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
  • book society — book club.
  • boot topping — the part of a ship's hull that is between the load line and the water line when the ship is not loaded
  • bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • bossier city — city in NW La., on the Red River opposite Shreveport: pop. 56,000
  • botrytis rot — a disease of many plants caused by fungi of the genus Botrytis, characterized by leaf blight, a tan-gray moldlike surface growth, and the rotting of stems and storage organs.
  • botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
  • bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
  • bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
  • box junction — (in Britain) a road junction having yellow cross-hatching painted on the road surface. Vehicles may only enter the hatched area when their exit is clear
  • boxing match — a competition between two boxers
  • brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
  • bring action — to start a lawsuit
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