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12-letter words containing b, o, d

  • flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
  • float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
  • flood basalt — a very extensive lava flow of basaltic composition that has issued from a fissure, often to be found as part of a series of such flows one on top of another, forming a plateau
  • flutterboard — a kickboard.
  • food subsidy — a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, farmers, or consumers, in order to make low-cost food available to the poor
  • foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
  • forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
  • forebodement — The act of foreboding.
  • forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
  • forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
  • foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
  • forward bias — a voltage applied to a circuit or device, esp a semiconductor device, in the direction that produces the larger current
  • found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
  • 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.
  • full-blooded — of unmixed ancestry; thoroughbred: a full-blooded Cherokee.
  • fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
  • futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
  • gable window — a window in or under a gable.
  • gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
  • gideon bible — a Bible purchased by members of a Christian organization (Gideons International) and placed in a hotel room, hospital ward, etc
  • global index — (filename extension)   (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
  • glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
  • 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
  • gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
  • gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
  • gobind singh — 1666–1708, tenth and last guru of the Sikhs (1675–1708): assassinated
  • god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
  • golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
  • golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
  • gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
  • good ol' boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
  • good old boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • ground robin — towhee.
  • groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
  • gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
  • half-blooded — having parents of two different breeds, species, or the like.
  • 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.
  • hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
  • hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
  • herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
  • hobbledehoys — Plural form of hobbledehoy.
  • homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
  • homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
  • honey badger — ratel.
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