12-letter words containing r, o, b, e, y
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- cerebropathy — A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- combat-ready — ready for combat
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- cookery book — A cookery book is the same as a cookbook.
- country-bred — brought up in the country
- courtesy bus — a free bus
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybertrooper — (in Malaysia) An activist who uses cyberspace.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
- dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
- donkey derby — a race in which contestants ride donkeys, esp at a rural fête
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- dry-bone ore — a porous variety of smithsonite found near the surface of the earth.
- dyer's-broom — woadwaxen.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- exprobratory — acting as a reproach
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- gollywobbler — a very large quadrilateral staysail set between the foremast and mainmast of a schooner.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- heavy bomber — a large plane capable of carrying heavy bomb loads for long distances, especially at high altitudes.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- honey badger — ratel.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperbolize.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.