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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
  • 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.
  • go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
  • go-away bird — a common name for a grey-plumaged lourie of the genus Corythaixoides
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
  • half-blooded — having parents of two different breeds, species, or the like.
  • hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
  • 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.
  • hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
  • honey badger — ratel.
  • hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
  • househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
  • humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
  • 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.
  • ibizan hound — one of a breed of medium-sized, tall, swift hunting hounds with a short, usually red and white coat, bred originally by the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt but today found chiefly in the Balearic Islands and other areas of Spain.
  • impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
  • imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
  • indian bison — the gaur.
  • indian cobra — a highly venomous cobra, Naja naja, common in India, having markings resembling a pair of spectacles on the back of the hood.
  • indisposable — Not disposable.
  • informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
  • inoxidizable — not susceptible to oxidation.
  • 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.
  • knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • labrador tea — a North American bog shrub, Ledum groenlandicum, of the heath family, having evergreen leaves and rounded clusters of white flowers.
  • lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
  • lead balloon — a total failure
  • leader block — Nautical. lead block.
  • 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.
  • load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
  • 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
  • malibu board — a lightweight, fiberglass-covered surfboard, usually about 10 feet (3 meters) long with a rounded nose and tail and a convex bottom for increased maneuverability.
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