12-letter words containing d, o, b, s
- overboldness — The state or fact of being too bold; audacity.
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- paedobaptist — a person who baptizes infants
- pastry board — a flat board on which pastry is rolled
- plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
- port de bras — (used with a singular verb) the technique of moving the arms properly.
- possessed by — spurred or moved by a strong feeling, madness, or a supernatural power (often followed by by, of, or with): The army fought as if possessed. The village believed her to be possessed of the devil.
- poster board — a thick, fairly stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together and typically used to support displays.
- preset board — a control board for setting up theatrical lighting switches and dimmer readings in advance so that during a performance the lights can be automatically operated for one or several scenes.
- 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
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rhabdosphere — a minute sphere made up of rhabdoliths
- riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
- rubber goods — contraceptives; condoms
- saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- 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.
- 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.
- savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
- school board — a local board or committee in charge of public education.
- scraperboard — scratchboard.
- scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- 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
- shepherd boy — male child who herds sheep
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- shut-out bid — a pre-emptive bid
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- six-yard box — On a football pitch, the six-yard box is the rectangular area marked in front of the goal.
- skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
- sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- 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.
- sober-headed — characterized by clear, logical thinking; not fanciful or capricious.
- sober-minded — rational; sensible.
- soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- spun-bonding — a process for forming nonwoven fabrics, usually of limited durability, by bonding continuous-filament synthetic fibers immediately after extrusion.
- sticky blood — a condition of the blood, particularly associated with Hughes syndrome, in which antibodies tend to adhere to platelets and glue them together, leading to an increased likelihood of clotting
- stockbreeder — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.