12-letter words containing t, o, r, b
- obstetrician — a physician who specializes in obstetrics. Abbreviation: OB, ob.
- obstreperate — to be extremely noisy or to create a resounding din
- obstreperous — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
- obstructions — Plural form of obstruction.
- of o's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- on probation — under the supervision of a probation officer
- on sb's part — If you talk about a feeling or action on someone's part, you are referring to something that they feel or do.
- on the brain — constantly in mind
- orbicularity — The quality of being orbicular.
- orbital road — a highway that circles a metropolitan area; ring road
- orthorhombic — noting or pertaining to a system of crystallization characterized by three unequal axes intersecting at right angles; rhombic; trimetric.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- over-trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
- pastry board — a flat board on which pastry is rolled
- pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- peroxyborate — perborate.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
- plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
- port de bras — (used with a singular verb) the technique of moving the arms properly.
- port moresby — an independent republic in the W Pacific Ocean, comprising the E part of New Guinea and numerous near-lying islands, including the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, the Trobriand Islands, and Bougainville and Buka in the Solomon Islands: a former Australian Trusteeship Territory; independent since 1975; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 178,260 sq. mi. (461,693 sq. km). Capital: Port Moresby.
- post-puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
- postabortion — Also called voluntary abortion. the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- poster board — a thick, fairly stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together and typically used to support displays.
- powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- preset board — a control board for setting up theatrical lighting switches and dimmer readings in advance so that during a performance the lights can be automatically operated for one or several scenes.
- press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
- probationary — the act of testing.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- protuberancy — protuberance.