12-letter words containing t, i, n, b
- bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
- bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
- bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
- bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
- bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- bunny rabbit — rabbit
- burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
- burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- bushfighting — fighting in the bush
- butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
- butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
- button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
- buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
- cabinet wine — cabinet (def 10).
- cabinet-wine — a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet.
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
- cantabrigian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambridge or Cambridge University, or of Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Harvard University
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- carbocations — Plural form of carbocation.
- carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
- cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
- cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
- cerebrotonic — relating to or resembling a personality type characterized by shyness, introspection, and emotional restraint, and often associated with an ectomorphic physique
- cirl bunting — a European passerine bird Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family Emberizidae
- cleanability — the ability to be cleaned
- cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- cohabitation — the state or condition of living together in a conjugal relationship without being married
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- combinations — a one-piece woollen undergarment with long sleeves and legs
- concubitancy — a custom requiring marriage between two people, esp a custom requiring a woman to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death
- conglobation — Formation into a ball, globe or rounded mass.
- connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
- contaminable — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- contemptible — If you feel that someone or something is contemptible, you feel strong dislike and disrespect for them.
- contemptibly — deserving of or held in contempt; despicable.
- contractible — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- contributary — contributory
- contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
- contributing — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contribution — If you make a contribution to something, you do something to help make it successful or to produce it.