12-letter words containing b, u, r, n, d
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground robin — towhee.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- honour-bound — morally obliged
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- index number — a quantity whose variation over a period of time measures the change in some phenomenon.
- india rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
- infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- massaranduba — any of various evergreen trees of the genus Manilkara of the family Sapotaceae that are native to the tropics
- mixed number — a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction or decimal, as 4½ or 4.5.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- 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.
- overburdened — Excessively burdened.
- 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.
- purblindness — the state of being purblind
- quarter bend — a 90° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
- redoublement — the act of redoubling
- reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
- revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- round barrow — a funerary barrow having a bell, disk, saucer, or pond shape, primarily of the Bronze Age and containing the cremated remains of corpses along with grave artifacts.
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
- running bond — a brickwork bond having successive courses of overlapping stretchers.
- 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.
- samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
- secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- sub-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
- sub-standard — A sub-standard service or product is unacceptable because it is below a required standard.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subordinator — a conjunction introducing a subordinate clause, as when in They were glad when I finished.
- support band — a band, pop group, rock group, etc not topping the bill
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- tribute band — A tribute band is a pop group that plays the music and copies the style of another, much more famous, pop group.
- un-furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- un-liberated — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.