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

  • decarbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonize.
  • decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
  • decarburized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarburize.
  • decerebrated — Simple past tense and past participle of decerebrate.
  • decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • 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
  • dicarboxylic — containing two carboxyl groups in the molecule
  • direct labor — labor performed, as by workers on a production line, and considered in computing costs per unit of production.
  • discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
  • distractable — Alternative form of distractible.
  • distractible — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
  • double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • dressed crab — cooked crabmeat that has been taken out of the shell
  • drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
  • 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.
  • garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
  • 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.
  • gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
  • 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.
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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