12-letter words containing b, o, u, l, d
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- full-blooded — of unmixed ancestry; thoroughbred: a full-blooded Cherokee.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- indissolubly — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- libidinously — In a libidinous manner.
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- malibu board — a lightweight, fiberglass-covered surfboard, usually about 10 feet (3 meters) long with a rounded nose and tail and a convex bottom for increased maneuverability.
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- mouldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- non-dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- 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.
- out-building — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- redoublement — the act of redoubling
- reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
- subabdominal — below or beneath the abdomen
- subdelirious — having the symptoms of subdelirium; suffering from subdelirium
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- tuberculosed — tuberculous
- unaffordable — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- undoubtfully — of uncertain outcome or result.
- undoubtingly — in an undoubting manner
- unelaborated — not elaborated
- unformidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- unlibidinous — not libidinous
- unmodifiable — incapable of being modified
- unobservedly — without having been observed; in an unobserved manner