13-letter words containing t, i, b
- tailorability — capable of being made into clothing: tailorable fabrics.
- take the bait — If you take the bait, you react to something that someone has said or done exactly as they intended you to do. The expression rise to the bait is also used, mainly in British English.
- tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
- tax liability — legal responsibility to pay taxes
- terbium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the cerium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
- terbium oxide — an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
- testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
- thanatophobia — an abnormal fear of death.
- the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
- the beautiful — the quality of beauty
- the big apple — New York City
- the big eight — a former group of eight US universities which have a tradition of excellence in baseball, basketball, and American football.
- the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- the big issue — a weekly magazine, founded to highlight the plight of the homeless, and sold by homeless people
- the big smoke — a large city, esp London
- the caribbean — the states and islands of the Caribbean Sea, including the West Indies, when considered as a geopolitical region
- the invisible — God
- the-big-apple — New York City.
- thereinbefore — before that
- thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
- thinkableness — the state or quality of being conceivable or thinkable
- thiocarbamide — thiourea.
- third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
- thread blight — a fungal disease of woody plants, characterized by thick, threadlike strands of mycelium on the undersides of the leaves and branches.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- thrombophilia — a condition marked by the tendency to develop blood clots or thrombosis
- thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- thyroglobulin — a protein which is found in the thyroid gland and which contains iodine
- tibeto-burman — a subfamily of Sino-Tibetan languages, including especially Tibetan and Burmese.
- tidal barrage — a barrier that traps water at high tide, creating a tidal basin
- tillamook bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the NW coast of Oregon: resort center. 6 miles (10 km) long and 2 miles (3 km) wide.
- timber beetle — bark beetle.
- timber-framed — framed by exposed timbers
- timbrophilist — a person who loves stamps or who collects stamps
- tintinnabular — of or relating to bells or bell ringing.
- tintinnabulum — a small, tinkling bell or a set of bells played in succession.
- to be precise — You say 'to be precise' to indicate that you are giving more detailed or accurate information than you have just given.
- to bear fruit — If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit, it is successful and produces good results.
- to begin with — You use to begin with when you are talking about the first stage of a situation, event, or process.
- to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
- tobaccanalian — a smoker
- toothbrushing — the act or method of cleaning the teeth with a toothbrush.
- totis viribus — with all one's might.
- touchline ban — an official prohibition of a manager or coach from being present on or near the field during a match
- trade barrier — any regulation or policy that restricts international trade, especially tariffs, quotas, etc.
- trail-blazing — A trail-blazing idea, event, or organization is new, exciting, and original.
- tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
- transmissible — capable of being transmitted.
- transmittable — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.