12-letter words containing d, n, b
- foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
- forebodement — The act of foreboding.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- full binding — a complete binding of a volume in any one material, generally leather.
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- gender-blind — not discriminating on the basis of gender, or not making a distinction between the sexes
- geneva bands — a pair of white lawn or linen strips hanging from the front of the neck or collar of some ecclesiastical and academic robes
- gideon bible — a Bible purchased by members of a Christian organization (Gideons International) and placed in a hotel room, hospital ward, etc
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
- global index — (filename extension) (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- gobind singh — 1666–1708, tenth and last guru of the Sikhs (1675–1708): assassinated
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
- gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
- grand bahama — an island in the NW Bahamas. 430 sq. mi. (1115 sq. km).
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- graybar land — (jargon) The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
- grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground robin — towhee.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- habilimented — Clothed.
- 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.
- half binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- half-binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- hand baggage — the suitcases, bags, etc, that you take with you onto an aeroplane when you travel, as opposed to those bags that are put in the aeroplane's hold
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
- head balance — headstand.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.