12-letter words containing a, b, d, o, m
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double modal — a syntactic construction in which two modal auxiliaries occur consecutively within a clause, as might could in I might could help you.
- endomembrane — (biology) All the membraneous components inside a eukaryotic cell, including the nuclear envelope, endoplastic reticulum, and Golgi apparatus.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
- malibu board — a lightweight, fiberglass-covered surfboard, usually about 10 feet (3 meters) long with a rounded nose and tail and a convex bottom for increased maneuverability.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- mastoid bone — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- messageboard — Alternative spelling of message board.
- microbicidal — a substance or preparation for killing microbes.
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- mortar board — A mortar board is a stiff black cap which has a flat square top with a bunch of threads attached to it. In Britain, mortar boards are sometimes worn on formal occasions by university students and teachers. In the United States, mortar boards are worn by students at graduation ceremonies at high schools, colleges, and universities.
- mortarboards — Plural form of mortarboard.
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- mouldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- oboe d'amore — a type of oboe pitched a minor third lower than the oboe itself. It is used chiefly in the performance of baroque music
- oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
- one-man band — A one-man band is a street entertainer who wears and plays a lot of different instruments at the same time.
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- payment bond — See under contract bond.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- rhombohedral — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
- subabdominal — below or beneath the abdomen
- tom o'bedlam — a roving beggar afflicted with or feigning madness.
- tombstone ad — a boxed advertisement without artwork or illustrations, especially one announcing an issue of a stock or bond.
- trombidiasis — infestation with mites of the family Trombiculidae
- unformidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- unmodifiable — incapable of being modified
- 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.
- zalambdodont — (zoology) Having teeth with two ridges that meet at an angle, forming the letter lambda.