12-letter words that end in o
- sweet potato — a plant, Ipomoea batatas, of the morning glory family, grown for its sweet, edible, tuberous roots.
- talk down to — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tau neutrino — a hypothetical type of neutrino that would obey a conservation law together with the tau lepton, with the total number of tau leptons and tau neutrinos minus the total number of their antiparticles remaining constant.
- that will do — If you say that will do to a child, you are telling them to stop behaving in the way that they are.
- thirty-twomo — a book size of about 3¼ × 5½ inches (8.3 × 14 cm), determined by printing on sheets that are folded to form 32 leaves or 64 pages. Symbol: 32mo, 32°.
- touch and go — precarious situation
- touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
- tree tobacco — a treelike South American plant, Nicotiana glauca, of the nightshade family, having blue-green foliage, heart-shaped leaves, and white, greenish-yellow, or purple flowers, the corolla yellow, grown as an ornamental.
- turn over to — If you turn something over to a different function or use, you change its function or use.
- up the wazoo — the anus.
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- very much so — The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.
- vuelta abajo — a region in W Cuba.
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- white potato — potato (def 1).
- yamoussoukro — a republic in W Africa: formerly part of French West Africa; gained independence 1960. 127,520 sq. mi. (330,275 sq. km). Capital: Abidjan.
- you-know-who — a person whose name one does not want to say, but who is known to the person to whom one is speaking