12-letter words containing b, o, a, n, e, r
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- 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.
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forebearance — Misspelling of forbearance.
- free balloon — a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.
- 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.
- frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
- frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
- gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
- georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
- germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- 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.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- honey badger — ratel.
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incorporable — able to be incorporated.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- interorbital — Between orbitals.
- interpolable — able to be interpolated, or suited to interpolation
- interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
- interrogable — capable of being interrogated
- job creation — the process by which the number of jobs in an area, organization, etc is increased
- 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.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- liberational — Relating to, or aiding, liberation; liberatory.
- liberty loan — any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.