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12-letter words containing a, b, d, i, c

  • gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
  • grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
  • handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
  • herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
  • icbm address — (networking, humour)   (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
  • increditable — (rare) Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
  • indeclinable — not capable of being declined; having no inflected forms: used especially of a word belonging to a form class most of whose members are declined, as the Latin adjective decem, “ten.”.
  • indian cobra — a highly venomous cobra, Naja naja, common in India, having markings resembling a pair of spectacles on the back of the hood.
  • ineradicable — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
  • ineradicably — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
  • library card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
  • 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.
  • nonadiabatic — (of a physical reaction) not adiabatic or not occurring without heat loss or gain
  • notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
  • noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • radio beacon — a radio station that sends a characteristic signal so as to enable ships or airplanes to determine their position or bearing by means of a radio compass.
  • radio-carbon — Also called carbon 14. a radioactive isotope of carbon with mass number 14 and a half-life of about 5730 years: widely used in the dating of organic materials.
  • raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
  • recalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
  • scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
  • scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
  • scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
  • sebacic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 1 0 H 1 8 O 4 , usually obtained from castor oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of plasticizers and resins.
  • sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
  • soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
  • soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
  • suberic acid — a crystalline dibasic acid, C 8 H 1 4 O 4 , obtained especially from suberin, castor oil, and cork: used chiefly in the preparation of plastics and plasticizers.
  • subjudiciary — the judicial branch of government.
  • teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • terebic acid — an acid, C 7 H 10 O 4 , formed by the oxidation of certain terpenes and historically important in the discovery of the structures of many terpenes.
  • uncalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • uncreditable — of ignoble character
  • unfabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
  • vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
  • wild cabbage — a European plant, Brassica oleracea, with broad leaves and a long spike of yellow flowers: the plant from which the cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprout have been bred
  • wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
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