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12-letter words containing d, n, 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.
  • ragged robin — a plant, Lychnis flos-cuculi, of the pink family, having pink or white flowers with dissected petals.
  • rainbow bird — an Australian bee-eater, Merops ornatus, with brightly coloured plumage. It feeds in flight and nests in sandy burrows
  • raisin bread — dough baked with dried grapes
  • rating badge — a badge that indicates the rank and specialty of a petty officer: worn on the upper left sleeve.
  • reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • redoublement — the act of redoubling
  • reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
  • revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
  • reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
  • rhombohedron — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
  • riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
  • riding habit — habit1 (def 11).
  • roller blind — a blind consisting of a length of fabric rolled around a pole and fitted to the top of a window
  • round barrow — a funerary barrow having a bell, disk, saucer, or pond shape, primarily of the Bronze Age and containing the cremated remains of corpses along with grave artifacts.
  • roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
  • ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
  • running bond — a brickwork bond having successive courses of overlapping stretchers.
  • sailboarding — windsurfing.
  • salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
  • samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
  • san bernardo — a city in central Chile, S of Santiago.
  • sand verbena — any of several low, mostly trailing plants of the genus Abronia, of the western U.S., having showy, verbenalike flowers.
  • sand-blasted — a blast of air or steam laden with sand, used to clean, grind, cut, or decorate hard surfaces, as of glass, stone, or metal.
  • sandblasting — the act or process of using a sandblast to clean, grind, or decorate a surface
  • sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • sandy blight — trachoma.
  • savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
  • sb's insides — the internal organs of the body, esp the stomach and bowels
  • scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
  • sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
  • seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
  • sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
  • self-blinded — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • sewn binding — a style of binding where the backs of the gathered sections are sewn together before being inserted into a cover
  • shadow bands — slow-moving waves of light and dark observed to move across light-coloured surfaces on the earth just before and after totality in a solar eclipse. They are thought to originate from the effects of irregular atmospheric refraction
  • shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
  • sikandarabad — Secunderabad.
  • single blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
  • single-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
  • slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
  • snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
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