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12-letter words containing n, o, b, a, r

  • frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
  • frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
  • funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
  • gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
  • gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
  • georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
  • georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
  • germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
  • glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
  • granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
  • haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
  • harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
  • harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
  • havana brown — a breed of medium-sized cat with large eyes, large ears, and a sleek brown coat
  • herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
  • hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
  • hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
  • honey badger — ratel.
  • honorability — (American spelling) Alternative form of honourability.
  • hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
  • horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
  • 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 .
  • impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
  • imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
  • imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
  • incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
  • incomparably — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
  • incorporable — able to be incorporated.
  • indian cobra — a highly venomous cobra, Naja naja, common in India, having markings resembling a pair of spectacles on the back of the hood.
  • informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
  • infraorbital — (anatomy) Below the orbit (of the eye).
  • inobservable — Unobservable.
  • inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
  • insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
  • interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
  • interorbital — Between orbitals.
  • interpolable — able to be interpolated, or suited to interpolation
  • interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
  • interrogable — capable of being interrogated
  • job creation — the process by which the number of jobs in an area, organization, etc is increased
  • job rotation — the practice of transferring an employee from one work station or activity to another during the working day in order to add variety to a job: often used in assembly line work
  • 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.
  • johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
  • joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
  • k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
  • kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
  • labia minora — female genitals: inner folds of skin
  • labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
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