12-letter words containing a, b, n, o, r
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- counterbrace — a rope on the leeward side of a ship, controlling the position of the fore-topsail
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- debonairness — The state or quality of being debonair.
- decarbonated — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonize.
- decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
- deliberation — Deliberation is the long and careful consideration of a subject.
- demonstrable — A demonstrable fact or quality can be shown to be true or to exist.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- diamond bird — any small insectivorous Australian songbird of the genus Pardalotus, having a diamond-patterned plumage
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- diving board — a springboard.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emblazonries — Plural form of emblazonry.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- endomembrane — (biology) All the membraneous components inside a eukaryotic cell, including the nuclear envelope, endoplastic reticulum, and Golgi apparatus.
- enterobacter — Any bacterium of the genus Enterobacter.
- enterobiasis — a disease, common in children, caused by infestation of the large intestine with nematodes of the genus Enterobius, esp the pinworm (E. vermicularis)
- exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- exprobration — the act of reproaching
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forebearance — Misspelling of forbearance.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- free balloon — a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.
- 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.