12-letter words containing h, a, b, d
- cheese board — A cheese board is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- cheeseboards — Plural form of cheeseboard.
- chequerboard — Alternative spelling of checkerboard.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- 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.
- graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
- grand bahama — an island in the NW Bahamas. 430 sq. mi. (1115 sq. km).
- haberdashers — Plural form of haberdasher.
- haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
- 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.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- hare-brained — giddy; reckless.