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12-letter words containing d, r, a, b, i, s

  • distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
  • disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
  • disturbative — capable of disturbing
  • dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
  • drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
  • forward bias — a voltage applied to a circuit or device, esp a semiconductor device, in the direction that produces the larger current
  • frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
  • gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
  • 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.
  • gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
  • hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • hybrid basis — A hybrid basis is a system of accounting that combines some of the features of cost basis with some of the features of accrual basis.
  • icbm address — (networking, humour)   (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
  • iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
  • keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
  • liquidambars — Plural form of liquidambar.
  • namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
  • noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
  • on shipboard — on board a ship
  • 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.
  • raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
  • raisin bread — dough baked with dried grapes
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • red brigades — an extreme leftist terrorist organization in Italy.
  • sailboarding — windsurfing.
  • samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • saudi arabia — a kingdom in N and central Arabia, including Hejaz, Nejd, and dependencies. About 600,000 sq. mi. (1,554,000 sq. km). Capital: Riyadh.
  • scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
  • 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.
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
  • sikandarabad — Secunderabad.
  • six-yard box — On a football pitch, the six-yard box is the rectangular area marked in front of the goal.
  • sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
  • 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.
  • soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
  • striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
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