12-letter words containing o, d, r, a, n
- backgrounder — A backgrounder is a short article in a newspaper or magazine that provides background information about a particular subject.
- backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
- bad scran to — bad luck to
- balladmonger — (formerly) a seller of ballads, esp on broadsheets
- banderillero — a bullfighter's assistant who sticks banderillas into the bull
- banner cloud — a plume-shaped cloud extending downwind from an isolated mountain peak. Also called cloud banner. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- barbados nut — an ornamental, tropical American tree, Jatropha curcas, of the spurge family, having ivylike leaves, small, yellow or greenish-yellow flowers, and olive-shaped fruit yielding a purgative, poisonous oil.
- bard of avon — Shakespeare
- barodynamics — the branch of mechanics concerned with heavy structures
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
- bear down on — to press down on; exert pressure on
- beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
- bearing down — to hold up; support: to bear the weight of the roof.
- beyond reach — inaccessible
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
- bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- break ground — to do something that has not been done before
- bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- broad-minded — If you describe someone as broad-minded, you approve of them because they are willing to accept types of behaviour which other people consider immoral.
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
- burial mound — a barrow
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- candleholder — a candlestick
- cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
- cardan joint — type of universal joint
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
- changearound — the act of changing to a different position
- chiliahedron — a thousand-sided polyhedron
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- chondrostian — relating to the class Chondrostei of fish with fin rays
- chord change — a movement from one chord to another
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- cloud banner — banner cloud.