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12-letter words containing a, b, r

  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • 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".
  • great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • 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.
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
  • griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
  • grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
  • grizzly bear — a large North American brown bear, Ursus (arctos) horribilis, with coarse, gray-tipped brown fur, once widespread in the western part of the continent as far south as northern Mexico but now restricted to some regions of Alaska, western Canada, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains: a threatened species except in Alaska.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
  • gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
  • gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
  • haberdashers — Plural form of haberdasher.
  • haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
  • 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 brother — brother (def 2).
  • half-brother — brother (def 2).
  • half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts
  • hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
  • halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
  • handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
  • handsbreadth — A small distance.
  • harbingering — Present participle of harbinger.
  • harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
  • harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
  • harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
  • hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
  • hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
  • haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
  • hark back to — recall: earlier era
  • harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
  • harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
  • harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
  • havana brown — a breed of medium-sized cat with large eyes, large ears, and a sleek brown coat
  • hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
  • heartbreaker — a person, event, or thing causing heartbreak.
  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • heat barrier — thermal barrier.
  • heavy bomber — a large plane capable of carrying heavy bomb loads for long distances, especially at high altitudes.
  • hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
  • hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
  • helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
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