12-letter words containing w, b, o
- lloyd webber — (Sir) Andrew, born 1948, English composer of musical theater.
- london brown — carbuncle (def 3).
- microbrewery — a brewery producing less than 15,000 barrels per year and usually concentrating on exotic or high quality beer.
- microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
- mind-blowing — overwhelming; astounding: Spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience.
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- newtownabbey — a town in Northern Ireland, in Newtownabbey district, Co Antrim on Belfast Lough: the third largest town in Northern Ireland, formed in 1958 by the amalgamation of seven villages; light industrial centre, esp for textiles. Pop: 62 056 (2001)
- nigger brown — a dark brown colour
- nonrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- off broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- off-broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- on a bowline — beating close to the wind
- out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
- power broker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- power-broker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- public works — government-funded construction
- rainbow bird — an Australian bee-eater, Merops ornatus, with brightly coloured plumage. It feeds in flight and nests in sandy burrows
- rainbow fish — guppy.
- rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
- rainbow roof — a gable roof in the form of a broad Gothic arch, with gently sloping convex surfaces.
- review board — panel appointed to reconsider a matter
- rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
- rollaway bed — a bed on castors
- roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
- round barrow — a funerary barrow having a bell, disk, saucer, or pond shape, primarily of the Bronze Age and containing the cremated remains of corpses along with grave artifacts.
- shadow bands — slow-moving waves of light and dark observed to move across light-coloured surfaces on the earth just before and after totality in a solar eclipse. They are thought to originate from the effects of irregular atmospheric refraction
- slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
- snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- snowmobilist — a person who drives a snowmobile, a snowmobiler
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- subsoil plow — a plow for stirring the subsoil, usually without disturbing the surface.
- sword-bearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
- tennis elbow — irritation of the synovial membrane, or joint rotary area, of the elbow, caused by immoderate motions while playing tennis or other sports; epicondylitis.
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- to know best — If you say that a particular person knows best, you mean that they have a lot of experience and should therefore be trusted to make decisions for other people.
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
- unfollowable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
- wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
- walking boot — a lightweight rigid knee-length boot with a reinforced sole and straps that fasten around the leg, used for support after a sprain or fracture
- warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.