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12-letter words containing b, w, r

  • jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
  • kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
  • law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
  • lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
  • lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
  • leaf warbler — any of several small, greenish or brownish, Old World warblers of the genus Phylloscopus that feed on insects among the leaves of trees.
  • lloyd webber — (Sir) Andrew, born 1948, English composer of musical theater.
  • london brown — carbuncle (def 3).
  • microbrewery — a brewery producing less than 15,000 barrels per year and usually concentrating on exotic or high quality beer.
  • microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
  • microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
  • middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
  • new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
  • new hebrides — former name of Vanuatu.
  • new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
  • new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
  • nigger brown — a dark brown colour
  • nonrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • off broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
  • off-broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
  • overflow bit — (architecture)   A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
  • palm warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.
  • pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
  • power broker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
  • power-broker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • 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).
  • public works — government-funded construction
  • rainbow bird — an Australian bee-eater, Merops ornatus, with brightly coloured plumage. It feeds in flight and nests in sandy burrows
  • rainbow fish — guppy.
  • rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
  • rainbow roof — a gable roof in the form of a broad Gothic arch, with gently sloping convex surfaces.
  • reed warbler — a small Old World warbler, Acrocephalus scirpaceus, inhabiting marshy places.
  • renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • review board — panel appointed to reconsider a matter
  • rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
  • rollaway bed — a bed on castors
  • roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
  • 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.
  • ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
  • slumber wear — nightclothes
  • snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • spider's web — a mesh of fine tough scleroprotein threads built by a spider from a liquid secreted from its spinnerets and used to trap insects
  • subway train — a train that runs on an underground railway
  • swamp rabbit — any of several southern cottontails, especially Sylvilagus aquaticus, of swamps and lowlands.
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
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