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12-letter words containing a, l, d, e

  • black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
  • black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
  • blackhearted — wicked; evil
  • bladder fern — a small fern, Cystoperis fragilis, with graceful lanceolate leaves, typically growing on limestone rocks and walls
  • bladder kelp — any of various giant brown algae with air bladders that buoy up the leafy portions
  • bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
  • bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
  • blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
  • blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
  • bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
  • boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
  • boletic acid — fumaric acid.
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • brand leader — The brand leader of a particular product is the brand of it that most people choose to buy.
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
  • bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
  • bubble dance — a solo dance by a nude or nearly nude woman, as in a burlesque show, using one or more balloons for covering.
  • bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
  • cadmium cell — a photocell with a cadmium electrode that is especially sensitive to ultraviolet radiation
  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • caesar salad — Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs, cheese, and small pieces of fried bread, served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs.
  • calculatedly — in a calculated manner
  • calendar api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
  • calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
  • calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
  • call-by-need — (reduction)   A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • calycoideous — calycoid
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • cancelpoodle — (messaging)   (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
  • candied peel — fruit skin which has been impregnated or encrusted with sugar or syrup, esp that of citrus fruits
  • candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
  • cannibalised — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise.
  • cannibalized — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalize.
  • cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
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