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

  • hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
  • hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
  • handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
  • handsbreadth — A small distance.
  • harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
  • hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
  • hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
  • herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
  • honey badger — ratel.
  • hybrid basis — A hybrid basis is a system of accounting that combines some of the features of cost basis with some of the features of accrual basis.
  • hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
  • 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 .
  • hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
  • hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
  • 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.)
  • impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
  • imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
  • increditable — (rare) Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
  • indeliberate — done without care; special planning or deliberation; unintentional.
  • india rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
  • indian bread — corn bread.
  • 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.
  • informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
  • infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
  • irredeemable — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
  • irredeemably — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
  • irremediable — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
  • irremediably — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
  • iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
  • jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
  • k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
  • keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
  • kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
  • labrador tea — a North American bog shrub, Ledum groenlandicum, of the heath family, having evergreen leaves and rounded clusters of white flowers.
  • land-grabber — a person who seizes land illegally or underhandedly.
  • landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
  • landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
  • lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
  • leader block — Nautical. lead block.
  • leader board — a board on which the scores of the leading competitors are displayed, as in a golf tournament.
  • leader cable — a submarine cable laid along a channel and emitting signals that a vessel can follow when visibility is poor.
  • leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
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