12-letter words containing a, d, o, r, b
- 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.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- 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
- 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.
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- honey badger — ratel.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- 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 .
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- indian cobra — a highly venomous cobra, Naja naja, common in India, having markings resembling a pair of spectacles on the back of the hood.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- 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
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- labrador tea — a North American bog shrub, Ledum groenlandicum, of the heath family, having evergreen leaves and rounded clusters of white flowers.
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- leader board — a board on which the scores of the leading competitors are displayed, as in a golf tournament.
- leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- ledger board — a horizontal board, as in a fence.
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- lord's table — the, communion table.
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- malibu board — a lightweight, fiberglass-covered surfboard, usually about 10 feet (3 meters) long with a rounded nose and tail and a convex bottom for increased maneuverability.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- messageboard — Alternative spelling of message board.
- microbicidal — a substance or preparation for killing microbes.
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- mortar board — A mortar board is a stiff black cap which has a flat square top with a bunch of threads attached to it. In Britain, mortar boards are sometimes worn on formal occasions by university students and teachers. In the United States, mortar boards are worn by students at graduation ceremonies at high schools, colleges, and universities.
- mortarboards — Plural form of mortarboard.
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- non-readable — unreadable.
- nonbroadcast — not broadcast to a wide audience, supplied on a hidden or private network
- noordbrabant — North Brabant
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- obedientiary — The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
- oboe d'amore — a type of oboe pitched a minor third lower than the oboe itself. It is used chiefly in the performance of baroque music
- oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.