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12-letter words containing a, b, d

  • flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
  • float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
  • flood basalt — a very extensive lava flow of basaltic composition that has issued from a fissure, often to be found as part of a series of such flows one on top of another, forming a plateau
  • flutterboard — a kickboard.
  • forward bias — a voltage applied to a circuit or device, esp a semiconductor device, in the direction that produces the larger current
  • french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
  • french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
  • frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
  • futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
  • gable window — a window in or under a gable.
  • gall bladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
  • gallbladders — Plural form of gallbladder.
  • gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
  • gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
  • garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
  • garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
  • gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
  • geneva bands — a pair of white lawn or linen strips hanging from the front of the neck or collar of some ecclesiastical and academic robes
  • gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
  • gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
  • glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
  • global index — (filename extension)   (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
  • gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
  • go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
  • go-away bird — a common name for a grey-plumaged lourie of the genus Corythaixoides
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
  • grand bahama — an island in the NW Bahamas. 430 sq. mi. (1115 sq. km).
  • grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
  • graybar land — (jargon)   The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
  • grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
  • griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
  • grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
  • haberdashers — Plural form of haberdasher.
  • haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
  • habilimented — Clothed.
  • hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
  • hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • half binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
  • half-binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
  • half-blooded — having parents of two different breeds, species, or the like.
  • hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
  • hand baggage — the suitcases, bags, etc, that you take with you onto an aeroplane when you travel, as opposed to those bags that are put in the aeroplane's hold
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