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12-letter words that end in ad

  • bachelor pad — a flat in which a bachelor lives
  • batter bread — spoon bread.
  • blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
  • bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
  • caesar salad — Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs, cheese, and small pieces of fried bread, served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs.
  • centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
  • chapter head — printed material appearing before and usually above the text of a chapter, as a title, number, quotation, etc.
  • chef's salad — A chef's salad is a green salad with hard-boiled egg and strips of meat and cheese on top.
  • chicken head — (graphics, abuse)   The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
  • counterplead — to plead the opposite of
  • country road — a road in the country
  • crowned head — a monarch
  • deadbeat dad — a father who neglects his responsibilities as a parent, esp. one who does not pay child support to his estranged wife.
  • death's-head — a human skull or a representation of one
  • diamond head — promontory in SE Oahu, Hawaii, near Honolulu, consisting of the rim of an extinct volcanic crater
  • drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
  • firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
  • flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
  • fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
  • french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
  • french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
  • genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
  • gizzard shad — a silvery herring, Dorosoma cepedianum, of eastern and central U.S. waters, that has a gizzardlike stomach.
  • glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
  • gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
  • griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
  • head-to-head — in direct confrontation, opposition, or competition: a head-to-head battle between the two companies.
  • hit the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
  • hollingshead — Holinshed.
  • indian bread — corn bread.
  • jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
  • kristianstad — a town in S Sweden: founded in 1614 as a Danish fortress, it was finally acquired by Sweden in 1678. Pop: 75 590 (2004 est)
  • lagging load — A lagging load is one where the phase of the current lags behind the phase of the voltage when supplied with an alternating voltage.
  • lisle thread — a fine, high-twisted and hard-twisted cotton thread, at least two-ply, used for hosiery, gloves, etc.
  • machine head — a metal peg-and-gear mechanism for tuning a string on an instrument such as a guitar
  • midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
  • monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
  • multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
  • murder squad — the section of a police force that is responsible for dealing with murders
  • not half bad — very good
  • orbital road — a highway that circles a metropolitan area; ring road
  • photo spread — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
  • point spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • point-spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • potato salad — potato chunks in mayonnaise
  • pudding-head — a stupid person
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • quinquenniad — a period of five years, quinquennium
  • raisin bread — dough baked with dried grapes

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