12-letter words containing t, o, h, b
- bloody shirt — something, as a political issue or historical event, that can be used to stir up outrage, partisan support, etc.
- blow through — to leave; make off
- blue norther — a cold north wind that brings rapidly falling temperatures.
- boar-hunting — the practice of hunting wild boars
- board shorts — shorts with longer legs, originally meant to protect a surfer's legs against the surfboard
- boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
- boehm system — a system of improved fingering and keying for the flute and clarinet, invented by the German musician Theobald Boehm (1794–1881).
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- 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.
- bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
- booch method — (programming) A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
- book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
- booster shot — an injection of a vaccine or other antigen some time after the initial series of injections, for maintaining immunity
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
- bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- bottom house — the open space beneath a house built upon high pillars
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
- boxer shorts — Boxer shorts are loose-fitting men's underpants that are shaped like the shorts worn by boxers.
- boxing match — a competition between two boxers
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
- breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
- broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
- bromomethane — methyl bromide.
- butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
- butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
- butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
- buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- by the dozen — in large quantities
- by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
- cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
- carbohydrate — Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
- cerebropathy — A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed.
- chamber tomb — a prehistoric tomb with a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
- chatterboxes — Plural form of chatterbox.
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
- coachability — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- cohabitating — cohabit.
- cohabitation — the state or condition of living together in a conjugal relationship without being married