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12-letter words containing r, u, d

  • badger-skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • banner cloud — a plume-shaped cloud extending downwind from an isolated mountain peak. Also called cloud banner. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
  • barbados nut — an ornamental, tropical American tree, Jatropha curcas, of the spurge family, having ivylike leaves, small, yellow or greenish-yellow flowers, and olive-shaped fruit yielding a purgative, poisonous oil.
  • barbary duck — the flesh of a Muscovy duck used as food
  • bardolatrous — relating to or characterized by bardolatry
  • barium oxide — a white or yellowish-white poisonous heavy powder used esp as a dehydrating agent. Formula: BaO
  • battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
  • beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
  • begrudgingly — If you do something begrudgingly, you do it unwillingly.
  • below ground — If something is below ground or below the ground, it is in the ground.
  • bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
  • bermuda lily — a lily, Lilium longiflorum eximium, having white, funnel-shaped flowers, cultivated especially as an Easter lily.
  • beurre fondu — melted butter.
  • billiard cue — a long cue used for playing billiards
  • biohazardous — a pathogen, especially one used in or produced by biological research.
  • bird's mouth — a right-angled notch cut in the underside of a rafter for fitting over a longitudinal member, as a wall plate.
  • bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
  • boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
  • border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • bottom round — a cut of beef taken from outside the round, which is below the rump and above the upper leg.
  • 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).
  • bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
  • brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
  • break ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • brevicaudate — having a short tail.
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
  • bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • broad church — You can refer to an organization, group, or area of activity as a broad church when it includes a wide range of opinions, beliefs, or styles.
  • broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
  • 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
  • bubble under — to remain just beneath a particular level
  • buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
  • buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
  • bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
  • bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • butyric acid — type of acid
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • buzzards bay — arm of the Atlantic, on the SE coast of Mass., at the base of Cape Cod peninsula
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
  • 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.
  • card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
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