12-letter words containing r, i, b, o, n
- bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
- burial mound — a barrow
- burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
- buying group — an association of companies who use their combined purchasing power to achieve the best prices from suppliers
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
- carbocations — Plural form of carbocation.
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- carbon fiber — a very strong, lightweight synthetic fiber used in protective clothing, spacecraft components, racing shells, etc.
- carbon fibre — a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
- carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
- cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
- cerebrotonic — relating to or resembling a personality type characterized by shyness, introspection, and emotional restraint, and often associated with an ectomorphic physique
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chronophobia — Fear of the passing of time, or more generally of time itself.
- cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- contractible — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- contributary — contributory
- contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
- contributing — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contribution — If you make a contribution to something, you do something to help make it successful or to produce it.
- contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contributors — Plural form of contributor.
- contributory — A contributory factor of a problem or accident is one of the things which caused it to exist or happen.
- conurbations — Plural form of conurbation.
- convertibles — Plural form of convertible.
- corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
- corncob pipe — a pipe made from a dried corncob
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- debonairness — The state or quality of being debonair.
- decarbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonize.