12-letter words containing b, r, a, n, d, e
- grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
- honey badger — ratel.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- increditable — (rare) Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
- indeliberate — done without care; special planning or deliberation; unintentional.
- india rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
- indian bread — corn bread.
- ineradicable — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
- ineradicably — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- land-grabber — a person who seizes land illegally or underhandedly.
- landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- non-readable — unreadable.
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- obedientiary — The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- quarter bend — a 90° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
- 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.
- ragged robin — a plant, Lychnis flos-cuculi, of the pink family, having pink or white flowers with dissected petals.
- raisin bread — dough baked with dried grapes
- rating badge — a badge that indicates the rank and specialty of a petty officer: worn on the upper left sleeve.
- reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae