12-letter words containing d, b, a
- checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
- cheese board — A cheese board is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- cheeseboards — Plural form of cheeseboard.
- chequerboard — Alternative spelling of checkerboard.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
- 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
- ciliary body — the part of the vascular tunic of the eye that connects the choroid with the iris
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
- class b drug — (in Britain) any of the second most dangerous group of controlled drugs, including amphetamine
- 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.
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- collaborated — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
- combat-ready — ready for combat
- comber board — (in weaving) a wooden frame pierced with a series of small holes through which the harness cords are threaded, used to regulate the cords and determine the texture and width of a repeat in a fabric.
- 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.
- corroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- cradleboards — Plural form of cradleboard.
- 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.
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- damnableness — The state or quality of being damnable.
- daniel boone — Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer, especially in Kentucky.
- danube river — a river in central and SE Europe, flowing E from southern Germany to the Black Sea. 1725 miles (2775 km) long.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- de-stabilise — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
- dead-end job — a job that has no prospects and will mean that one does the same kind of (low-grade) work for ever
- deadbeat dad — a father who neglects his responsibilities as a parent, esp. one who does not pay child support to his estranged wife.
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
- debilitation — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
- debilitative — producing or bringing about a weakened state
- debonairness — The state or quality of being debonair.
- debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
- decarbonated — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonate.