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12-letter words containing a, b, e, c, d, r

  • checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
  • cheese board — A cheese board is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
  • cheeseboards — Plural form of cheeseboard.
  • chequerboard — Alternative spelling of checkerboard.
  • child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
  • chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
  • clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
  • collaborated — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • combat-ready — ready for combat
  • comber board — (in weaving) a wooden frame pierced with a series of small holes through which the harness cords are threaded, used to regulate the cords and determine the texture and width of a repeat in a fabric.
  • considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
  • considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
  • corroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
  • crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
  • cradleboards — Plural form of cradleboard.
  • cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
  • debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
  • debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
  • 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.
  • decarburized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarburize.
  • decerebrated — Simple past tense and past participle of decerebrate.
  • decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
  • direct labor — labor performed, as by workers on a production line, and considered in computing costs per unit of production.
  • discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
  • distractable — Alternative form of distractible.
  • distractible — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
  • double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • dressed crab — cooked crabmeat that has been taken out of the shell
  • fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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