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12-letter words containing b, a, n, d, e

  • bed of nails — a situation or position of extreme difficulty
  • bedazzlement — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
  • behenic acid — a crystalline, saturated fatty acid, C 22 H 44 O 2 , obtained from plant sources, used chiefly in the manufacture of cosmetics, waxes, and plasticizers.
  • bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • belly dancer — A belly dancer is a woman who performs a Middle Eastern dance in which she moves her hips and abdomen about.
  • beneficiated — to treat (ore) to make more suitable for smelting.
  • benzaldehyde — a yellowish fragrant volatile oil occurring in almond kernels and used in the manufacture of dyes, perfumes, and flavourings and as a solvent for oils and resins. Formula: C6H5CHO
  • benzoic acid — a white crystalline solid occurring in many natural resins, used in the manufacture of benzoates, plasticizers, and dyes and as a food preservative (E210). Formula: C6H5COOH
  • beyond reach — inaccessible
  • bid defiance — to resist boldly
  • bird fancier — a person who keeps, breeds, or sells birds
  • bird-brained — silly; stupid
  • bladder fern — a small fern, Cystoperis fragilis, with graceful lanceolate leaves, typically growing on limestone rocks and walls
  • 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
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
  • body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
  • bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
  • bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
  • brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
  • branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
  • brand leader — The brand leader of a particular product is the brand of it that most people choose to buy.
  • brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
  • brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
  • breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • break ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
  • broad-minded — If you describe someone as broad-minded, you approve of them because they are willing to accept types of behaviour which other people consider immoral.
  • 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.
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • carrick bend — type of knot
  • centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
  • chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
  • clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
  • clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • compoundable — That can be compounded.
  • confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
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