12-letter words containing a, b, o, n, d
- decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
- deliberation — Deliberation is the long and careful consideration of a subject.
- demibastions — Plural form of demibastion.
- demonstrable — A demonstrable fact or quality can be shown to be true or to exist.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- detonability — the quality of being detonable
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- diamond bird — any small insectivorous Australian songbird of the genus Pardalotus, having a diamond-patterned plumage
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- diving board — a springboard.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dog and bone — a telephone
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- donets basin — a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- endomembrane — (biology) All the membraneous components inside a eukaryotic cell, including the nuclear envelope, endoplastic reticulum, and Golgi apparatus.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- honey badger — ratel.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- ibizan hound — one of a breed of medium-sized, tall, swift hunting hounds with a short, usually red and white coat, bred originally by the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt but today found chiefly in the Balearic Islands and other areas of Spain.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- indian bison — the gaur.
- indian cobra — a highly venomous cobra, Naja naja, common in India, having markings resembling a pair of spectacles on the back of the hood.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- inoxidizable — not susceptible to oxidation.
- jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods