12-letter words containing a, b, n, d, o
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
- boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
- bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- boudin blanc — a boiled sausage made with light-colored meat, as veal or chicken, and without blood
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- break ground — to do something that has not been done before
- bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- broad-minded — If you describe someone as broad-minded, you approve of them because they are willing to accept types of behaviour which other people consider immoral.
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
- bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
- buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
- burial mound — a barrow
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- cannabinoids — Plural form of cannabinoid.
- cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- daniel boone — Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer, especially in Kentucky.
- dead-end job — a job that has no prospects and will mean that one does the same kind of (low-grade) work for ever
- debilitation — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
- debonairness — The state or quality of being debonair.
- decarbonated — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonize.