12-letter words containing b, r, a, n, d, l
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- graybar land — (jargon) The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- 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.
- 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.
- infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- tornado belt — the part of the U.S. in which tornadoes occur most frequently, roughly the area within a 500-mile (805-km) radius of southern Missouri.
- un-liberated — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- unaffordable — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- unbridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- uncalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- uncelebrated — not celebrated or marked by festivities; unremarked
- uncreditable — of ignoble character
- undeliberate — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- underblanket — a blanket placed under a bottom sheet
- undertakable — able to be undertaken
- undeterrable — to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding: The large dog deterred trespassers.
- unelaborated — not elaborated
- unformidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- unpardonable — kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience: I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?
- unpardonably — in a manner that is not excusable; disgracefully
- unrecordable — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
- unredeemable — capable of being redeemed.
- unrefundable — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.