12-letter words containing b, o, n, d, c
- decarbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonize.
- decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- 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.
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
- 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 .
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- incorrodible — incapable of being corroded; not corrodible
- incrossbreed — to breed (animals) by crossbreeding inbred parents, whether of the same or of different breeds
- indian cobra — a highly venomous cobra, Naja naja, common in India, having markings resembling a pair of spectacles on the back of the hood.
- medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
- mockingbirds — Plural form of mockingbird.
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- non-credible — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.
- 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
- noninducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- nonobedience — absence or lack of obedience.
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- 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.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- 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.
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- unobstructed — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unrecordable — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.