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12-letter words containing o, n, e, d

  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • bonded goods — goods which have been deposited in a bonded warehouse
  • bonding wire — A bonding wire is a wire connecting two pieces of equipment, often for hazard prevention.
  • bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
  • bosom friend — an intimate friend
  • bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
  • bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • 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
  • bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
  • 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.
  • broken chord — a chord played as an arpeggio
  • broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
  • 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.
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • by the dozen — in large quantities
  • cacodaemonic — Daemonic.
  • cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • 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)
  • canada goose — A Canada goose is a grayish-brown wild goose that comes from North America.
  • cancelpoodle — (messaging)   (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • canned goods — tinned food produce
  • cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • 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.
  • centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
  • centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
  • chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
  • 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
  • chondriosome — mitochondrion
  • chondrophore — a medusoid hydrozoan that resembles a jellyfish
  • chord change — a movement from one chord to another
  • chordophones — Plural form of chordophone.
  • ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
  • cinchonidine — an alkaloid that is a stereoisomer of cinchonine, with similar properties and uses
  • cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
  • city edition — an early edition of a daily newspaper on sale locally, usually a later edition than the one sent for out-of-town distribution.
  • cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
  • cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
  • claude monetClaude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
  • clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
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