12-letter words containing b, o, d, a, c
- drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
- fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 .
- indian cobra — a highly venomous cobra, Naja naja, common in India, having markings resembling a pair of spectacles on the back of the hood.
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- 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.
- nonadiabatic — (of a physical reaction) not adiabatic or not occurring without heat loss or gain
- nonbroadcast — not broadcast to a wide audience, supplied on a hidden or private network
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- radar beacon — a radar device at a fixed location that, on receiving a radar signal, automatically transmits a particular radar signal in reply, identifying itself and enabling navigators of ships and aircraft to determine their distance and direction from it.
- radio beacon — a radio station that sends a characteristic signal so as to enable ships or airplanes to determine their position or bearing by means of a radio compass.
- radio-carbon — Also called carbon 14. a radioactive isotope of carbon with mass number 14 and a half-life of about 5730 years: widely used in the dating of organic materials.
- record label — recorded music production company
- saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
- school board — a local board or committee in charge of public education.
- scraperboard — scratchboard.
- 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.
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- tobacco road — a squalid and impoverished rural community.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- unrecordable — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified