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

  • 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.
  • for the best — of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
  • forebodement — The act of foreboding.
  • 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.
  • fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
  • front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
  • 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.
  • frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
  • functionable — functional (def 3).
  • gamboge tree — any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Garcinia, esp G. hanburyi, that yield this resin: family Clusiaceae
  • 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
  • gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
  • get a bun on — to become drunk
  • ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
  • globetrotter — a person who travels regularly or frequently to countries all over the world.
  • god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
  • 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.
  • harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
  • haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
  • hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
  • helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
  • hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
  • hematophobia — Fear of bleeding or the sight of blood.
  • hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
  • herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
  • hessian boot — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
  • heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
  • heterophobia — Fear or resentment of what is different.
  • hexobarbital — a barbiturate with hypnotic and sedative properties
  • hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
  • hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
  • honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
  • hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
  • hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
  • hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
  • hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
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