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12-letter words containing r, o, b, c

  • decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
  • dicarboxylic — containing two carboxyl groups in the molecule
  • direct labor — labor performed, as by workers on a production line, and considered in computing costs per unit of production.
  • discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
  • double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
  • double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
  • double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
  • drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
  • dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
  • dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
  • ebracteolate — having no bractlets
  • echo chamber — a room or studio with resonant walls for broadcasting or recording echoes or hollow sound effects.
  • elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
  • elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
  • embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
  • en brochette — (esp of meat) roasted or grilled on a skewer
  • enterobacter — Any bacterium of the genus Enterobacter.
  • exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
  • fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
  • factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
  • factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
  • fibre optics — optical fibre
  • fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
  • fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
  • fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
  • fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
  • forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
  • forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
  • forebearance — Misspelling of forbearance.
  • forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
  • 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.
  • friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
  • frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
  • garbological — Of or relating to garbology.
  • global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
  • goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
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