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

  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • red brigades — an extreme leftist terrorist organization in Italy.
  • review board — panel appointed to reconsider a matter
  • ride a hobby — to be excessively devoted to one's favorite pastime or subject
  • riding habit — habit1 (def 11).
  • sailboarding — windsurfing.
  • samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
  • sandblasting — the act or process of using a sandblast to clean, grind, or decorate a surface
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • sandy blight — trachoma.
  • saudi arabia — a kingdom in N and central Arabia, including Hejaz, Nejd, and dependencies. About 600,000 sq. mi. (1,554,000 sq. km). Capital: Riyadh.
  • savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
  • 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
  • sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
  • seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
  • 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.
  • sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
  • sikandarabad — Secunderabad.
  • six-yard box — On a football pitch, the six-yard box is the rectangular area marked in front of the goal.
  • slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
  • sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
  • snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
  • 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
  • speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • spina bifida — a congenital neural tube defect in which part of the meninges or spinal cord protrudes through the spinal column, often resulting in neurological impairment.
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
  • straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
  • striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
  • sub-additive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
  • subabdominal — below or beneath the abdomen
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
  • subdividable — to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
  • 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.
  • subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
  • subjudiciary — the judicial branch of government.
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subordinator — a conjunction introducing a subordinate clause, as when in They were glad when I finished.
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