12-letter words containing b, o, u, r, d
- distributors — Plural form of distributor.
- dole bludger — a person who collects unemployment benefits but makes no serious effort to get work.
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- double doors — set of 2 doors side by side
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double ender — a double-ended vessel.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- 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.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- honour-bound — morally obliged
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- 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.
- mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
- mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
- order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.