12-letter words containing c, a, n, d, b
- cardigan bay — an inlet of St George's Channel, on the W coast of Wales
- carrick bend — type of knot
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- decarbonated — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonize.
- decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dynamic dbms — dynamic database management system
- edible canna — a South American and West Indian herb, Canna edulis, having large sheathing leaves, red flowers, and edible rhizomes.
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
- grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- head balance — headstand.
- 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 .
- 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.
- 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