12-letter words containing t, u, r, b, o
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
- ebulliometer — a device used to determine the boiling point of a solution
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- fibrous root — a root, as in most grasses, having numerous, very fine branches of approximately the same length.
- 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.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
- liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- masturbatory — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- microtubular — Of or pertaining to microtubules.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- mobius strip — a continuous, one-sided surface formed by twisting one end of a rectangular strip through 180° about the longitudinal axis of the strip and attaching this end to the other.
- mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
- mount erebus — a volcano in Antarctica, on Ross Island: discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 and named after his ship. Height: 3794 m (12 448 ft)
- mount robson — a mountain in SW Canada, in E British Columbia: the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. Height: 3954 m (12 972 ft)
- mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
- mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
- multilobular — having several or many lobules.
- multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- musturbation — (psychology) The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds