12-letter words containing a, b, l, e, d
- non-voidable — capable of being nullified or invalidated.
- nondelegable — Not delegable.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- parole board — panel who evaluate prisoners for release
- pebbledashed — covered with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
- 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.
- preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
- recalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- record label — recorded music production company
- reed warbler — a small Old World warbler, Acrocephalus scirpaceus, inhabiting marshy places.
- rehydratable — capable of being rehydrated
- rhombohedral — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- rollaway bed — a bed on castors
- rollerblader — someone who skates using Rollerblades
- saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
- safety blade — a blade, as on a knife, razor, etc, with a guard to reduce the risk of accidental cutting
- salad basket — a basket in which washed salad greens are swung or spun to remove excess water.
- salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
- sand-blasted — a blast of air or steam laden with sand, used to clean, grind, cut, or decorate hard surfaces, as of glass, stone, or metal.
- scabbardless — lacking a scabbard or a sheath for a sword or dagger
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- sell-by date — the last date on which perishable food should be sold, usually established with some allowance for home storage under refrigeration. Compare shelf life.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
- slumbershade — sleep shade.
- 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
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- 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
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- table d'hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- the disabled — those who are physically or mentally disabled; the handicapped
- tom o'bedlam — a roving beggar afflicted with or feigning madness.
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- tornado belt — the part of the U.S. in which tornadoes occur most frequently, roughly the area within a 500-mile (805-km) radius of southern Missouri.
- trabeculated — having trabeculae, transversely barred
- tuberculated — bearing tubercles, knobbly projections or excrescences
- tyndall beam — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- un-liberated — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- unadjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
- unaffordable — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.