16-letter words containing t, o, e, b
- fire-tube boiler — any boiler for generating steam by passing hot gases and other combustible products through tubes (fire tubes) immersed in water to a chimney or uptake.
- flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
- flat-bed plotter — a mechanized drafting device, usually computer driven, incorporating a moving pen whose horizontal and vertical range in two dimensions is limited only by the size of the bed of the device.
- flatheaded borer — the larva of a metallic wood-boring beetle, having an expanded and flattened anterior end.
- football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
- forbes-robertson — Sir Johnston, 1853–1937, English actor and theatrical manager.
- forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
- forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
- fortin barometer — an adjustable cistern barometer, the most common of those employing mercury.
- four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
- freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
- frontier orbital — the highest-energy occupied orbital or lowest-energy unoccupied orbital in a molecule. Such orbitals have a large influence on chemical properties
- full to the brim — If something, especially a container, is filled to the brim or full to the brim with something, it is filled right up to the top.
- get into trouble — be punished for wrongdoing
- get up sb's nose — If you say that someone or something gets up your nose, you mean that they annoy you.
- globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
- goldsmith beetle — a brilliant golden scarabaeid beetle, Cetonia aurata, of Europe.
- grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
- great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
- have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- hedge one's bets — If you hedge your bets, you reduce the risk of losing a lot by supporting more than one person or thing in a situation where they are opposed to each other.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- heterometabolism — insect development in which the young hatch in a form very similar to the adult and then mature without a pupal stage
- heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
- hot and bothered — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- hot buttered rum — a drink made with rum, hot water, and sugar, served with a lump of butter in a mug.
- hot-cathode tube — thermionic tube.
- hot-water bottle — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
- houphouet-boigny — Félix [French fey-leeks] /French feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1905–1993, Ivory Coast political leader: president 1960–93.
- hubble telescope — a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges
- humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
- huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- inconceivability — (uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
- incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- incontrovertible — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- incontrovertibly — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- inconvertibility — The condition of being inconvertible.
- incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
- indian breadroot — breadroot.
- inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
- intake of breath — When someone takes an intake of breath, they breathe in quickly and noisily, usually because they are shocked at something.
- inter-laboratory — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour