12-letter words containing d, e, b, o
- leader board — a board on which the scores of the leading competitors are displayed, as in a golf tournament.
- leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- ledger board — a horizontal board, as in a fence.
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- lloyd webber — (Sir) Andrew, born 1948, English composer of musical theater.
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- loose-limbed — having supple arms and legs: a loose-limbed athlete.
- lord's table — the, communion table.
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- mastoid bone — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
- messageboard — Alternative spelling of message board.
- middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- molybdenosis — a disease of ruminants, especially cattle, caused by dietary intake of excessive molybdenum with resultant copper deficiency, characterized by persistent diarrhea and, especially around the eyes, a fading of coat pigment.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
- mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- neighborhood — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
- noble-minded — characterized by morally admirable thought or motives; righteous; worthy.
- non-credible — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.
- non-disabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- non-dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- non-readable — unreadable.
- non-voidable — capable of being nullified or invalidated.
- nondelegable — Not delegable.
- nonforbidden — Unforbidden.
- noninducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- nonobedience — absence or lack of obedience.
- nosebleeding — bleeding emanating from the nose
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- obedientiary — The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
- objectivized — to cause to become concrete or objective; objectify.
- oboe d'amore — a type of oboe pitched a minor third lower than the oboe itself. It is used chiefly in the performance of baroque music
- oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
- old believer — Raskolnik.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- on sb's side — If you are on someone's side, you are supporting them in an argument or a war.