12-letter words containing b, r, o, e, d
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- labrador tea — a North American bog shrub, Ledum groenlandicum, of the heath family, having evergreen leaves and rounded clusters of white flowers.
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- leader board — a board on which the scores of the leading competitors are displayed, as in a golf tournament.
- leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- ledger board — a horizontal board, as in a fence.
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- lloyd webber — (Sir) Andrew, born 1948, English composer of musical theater.
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- lord's table — the, communion table.
- 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.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- messageboard — Alternative spelling of message board.
- middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- 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
- neighborhood — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
- non-credible — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.
- 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.
- nonforbidden — Unforbidden.
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- obedientiary — The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
- oboe d'amore — a type of oboe pitched a minor third lower than the oboe itself. It is used chiefly in the performance of baroque music
- 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.
- old believer — Raskolnik.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
- 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.
- overboldness — The state or fact of being too bold; audacity.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overburdened — Excessively burdened.
- parole board — panel who evaluate prisoners for release
- peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
- plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- port de bras — (used with a singular verb) the technique of moving the arms properly.
- poster board — a thick, fairly stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together and typically used to support displays.
- 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).
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.