12-letter words containing d, a, c, r, b
- 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.
- 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.
- secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
- sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- suberic acid — a crystalline dibasic acid, C 8 H 1 4 O 4 , obtained especially from suberin, castor oil, and cork: used chiefly in the preparation of plastics and plasticizers.
- subjudiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- terebic acid — an acid, C 7 H 10 O 4 , formed by the oxidation of certain terpenes and historically important in the discovery of the structures of many terpenes.
- tobacco road — a squalid and impoverished rural community.
- trabeculated — having trabeculae, transversely barred
- tuberculated — bearing tubercles, knobbly projections or excrescences
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- uncalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- uncelebrated — not celebrated or marked by festivities; unremarked
- uncreditable — of ignoble character
- unfabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- unrecordable — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified