12-letter words containing d, o, b, i
- 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
- microbicidal — a substance or preparation for killing microbes.
- 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.
- mind-blowing — overwhelming; astounding: Spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience.
- mindboggling — That causes the mind to boggle; that is beyond one's ability to understand or figure out; bewildering; mystifying.
- mockingbirds — Plural form of mockingbird.
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- 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.
- mouldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- 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-voidable — capable of being nullified or invalidated.
- nonadiabatic — (of a physical reaction) not adiabatic or not occurring without heat loss or gain
- 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.
- obedientiary — The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
- objectivized — to cause to become concrete or objective; objectify.
- odontophobia — an unnatural dread or terror of teeth
- old believer — Raskolnik.
- olivary body — one of two oval bodies or prominences composed of nerve tissue, one on each side of the anterior surface of the medulla oblongata.
- on sb's side — If you are on someone's side, you are supporting them in an argument or a war.
- on shipboard — on board a ship
- orbital road — a highway that circles a metropolitan area; ring road
- out-building — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- paedobaptist — a person who baptizes infants
- peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
- peptide bond — a covalent bond formed by joining the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another, with the removal of a molecule of water.
- pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
- pigeon blood — dark red.
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public