12-letter words containing b, a, t, r, d
- 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.
- orbital road — a highway that circles a metropolitan area; ring road
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- pastry board — a flat board on which pastry is rolled
- plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- port de bras — (used with a singular verb) the technique of moving the arms properly.
- poster board — a thick, fairly stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together and typically used to support displays.
- preset board — a control board for setting up theatrical lighting switches and dimmer readings in advance so that during a performance the lights can be automatically operated for one or several scenes.
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- quarter bend — a 90° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
- rating badge — a badge that indicates the rank and specialty of a petty officer: worn on the upper left sleeve.
- reattributed — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- recalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- rehydratable — capable of being rehydrated
- riding habit — habit1 (def 11).
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
- sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
- scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
- standardbred — one of an American breed of trotting and pacing horses used chiefly for harness racing.
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- sub-standard — A sub-standard service or product is unacceptable because it is below a required standard.
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subordinator — a conjunction introducing a subordinate clause, as when in They were glad when I finished.
- subsaturated — soaked, impregnated, or imbued thoroughly; charged thoroughly or completely; brought to a state of saturation.
- subsidiarity — secondary importance
- support band — a band, pop group, rock group, etc not topping the bill
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- terebic acid — an acid, C 7 H 10 O 4 , formed by the oxidation of certain terpenes and historically important in the discovery of the structures of many terpenes.
- the bereaved — the survivors of a person who has died recently
- tobacco road — a squalid and impoverished rural community.
- tornado belt — the part of the U.S. in which tornadoes occur most frequently, roughly the area within a 500-mile (805-km) radius of southern Missouri.
- torpedo boat — a small, fast, highly maneuverable boat used for torpedoing enemy shipping.
- trabeculated — having trabeculae, transversely barred
- tribute band — A tribute band is a pop group that plays the music and copies the style of another, much more famous, pop group.
- trombidiasis — infestation with mites of the family Trombiculidae
- tuberculated — bearing tubercles, knobbly projections or excrescences
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine