12-letter words containing bb
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- india rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
- land-grabber — a person who seizes land illegally or underhandedly.
- landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- latex rubber — rubber used to make many products such as gloves, condoms, etc, and which is made from latex, a whitish milky fluid containing protein, starch, alkaloids, etc, that is produced by many plants
- lloyd webber — (Sir) Andrew, born 1948, English composer of musical theater.
- lubberliness — Quality of being lubberly.
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- 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)
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- oneg shabbat — a Jewish celebration in honor of the Sabbath that takes place on Friday evening or Saturday afternoon and usually includes a program of songs, a lecture, and refreshments.
- palm cabbage — cabbage palm.
- pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
- pebble beach — a beach covered with pebbles or stones rather than sand
- pebbledashed — covered with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- psychobabble — writing or talk using jargon from psychiatry or psychotherapy without particular accuracy or relevance.
- rabbet joint — a joint between rabbeted parts.
- rabbet plane — a plane for cutting rabbets or the like, having a blade set to one side at right angles or diagonally to the direction of motion.
- rabbinically — In a rabbinical way.
- rabbit fever — tularemia.
- rabbit hutch — a cage, usually of wood and wire mesh, for keeping domestic or pet rabbits in
- rabbit punch — a short, sharp blow to the nape of the neck or the lower part of the skull.
- rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
- rabble-rouse — to stir up the emotions or prejudices of the public; agitate.
- ribbon cable — (hardware) A type of flat multicore cable with cores positioned side-by-side, making it quick and relatively easy to clamp an Insulation Displacement Connector (IDC) across all cores. Ribbon cables typically have grey insulation with cores on a 0.050" pitch and a red stripe marking Pin 1. They are less resilient than screened, multicore cable and are usually used inside equipment where little movement or plugging and unplugging are expected. A common use is connecting a disk drive to the motherboard in a PC.
- ribbon plant — spider plant (def 1).
- ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
- ribbon strip — ribbon (def 8).
- ride a hobby — to be excessively devoted to one's favorite pastime or subject
- robber baron — History/Historical. a noble who robbed travelers passing through his lands.
- rubber boots — wellingtons: footwear worn in rain
- rubber check — a check drawn on an account lacking the funds to pay it; a check that bounces.
- rubber goods — contraceptives; condoms
- rubber latex — the milky sap of any of several trees of the genus Hevea, especially H. brasiliensis, from which natural rubber is derived.
- rubber match — rubber2 (def 4)
- rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
- rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
- rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
- rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
- rubber-tyred — having a tyre or tyres made of rubber
- rubbernecker — a person who rubbernecks
- rubbish dump — a place or area where waste materials are dumped
- scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- scabbardless — lacking a scabbard or a sheath for a sword or dagger
- scribblement — a scribble
- scribblingly — in a scribbling manner
- scribbly gum — any species of the genus Eucalyptus with smooth white bark marked with random patterns made by wood-boring insects