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12-letter words containing c, a, b, d

  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • head balance — headstand.
  • herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
  • hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
  • icbm address — (networking, humour)   (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
  • increditable — (rare) Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
  • indeclinable — not capable of being declined; having no inflected forms: used especially of a word belonging to a form class most of whose members are declined, as the Latin adjective decem, “ten.”.
  • indian cobra — a highly venomous cobra, Naja naja, common in India, having markings resembling a pair of spectacles on the back of the hood.
  • 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.
  • leader block — Nautical. lead block.
  • leader cable — a submarine cable laid along a channel and emitting signals that a vessel can follow when visibility is poor.
  • library card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
  • may-december — of or designating a marriage or romantic relationship between a young person and a person who is considerably older
  • microbicidal — a substance or preparation for killing microbes.
  • mockingboard — (hardware)   A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
  • nonadiabatic — (of a physical reaction) not adiabatic or not occurring without heat loss or gain
  • nonbroadcast — not broadcast to a wide audience, supplied on a hidden or private network
  • notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
  • noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
  • orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
  • ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
  • overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
  • peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • 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.
  • radio-carbon — Also called carbon 14. a radioactive isotope of carbon with mass number 14 and a half-life of about 5730 years: widely used in the dating of organic materials.
  • raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
  • recalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • record label — recorded music production company
  • rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
  • saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scabbardless — lacking a scabbard or a sheath for a sword or dagger
  • school board — a local board or committee in charge of public education.
  • scraperboard — scratchboard.
  • scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
  • scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
  • scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
  • scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
  • scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
  • sebacic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 1 0 H 1 8 O 4 , usually obtained from castor oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of plasticizers and resins.
  • secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
  • sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
  • soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
  • soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
  • straddleback — astride, on horseback
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