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

  • board member — a member of board of directors
  • boarder baby — an infant or young child who is abandoned or orphaned and left in a hospital for lack of a foster home.
  • body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
  • body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
  • 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
  • body-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • bois de rose — a grayish red or dark purplish red color.
  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • bonding wire — A bonding wire is a wire connecting two pieces of equipment, often for hazard prevention.
  • boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
  • boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
  • booster dose — a supplementary injection of a vaccine given to maintain the immunization provided by an earlier dose
  • border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • border state — a state adjacent to a border
  • border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
  • bosom friend — an intimate friend
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
  • bottomfeeder — (networking)   An RSS aggregator.
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • 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
  • break of day — dawn; daybreak.
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
  • 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 jumper — a participant in the long jump.
  • broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
  • 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.
  • brush border — a layer of tightly packed minute finger-like protuberances on cells that line absorptive surfaces, such as those of the intestine and kidney
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • 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)
  • campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
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