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

  • drillability — Machinery, Building Trades. a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, especially by rotation. a tool, especially a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.
  • drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
  • drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
  • driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
  • drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
  • endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
  • equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
  • extraditable — (of a crime) rendering the offender liable to extradition
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
  • figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
  • flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
  • float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
  • forward bias — a voltage applied to a circuit or device, esp a semiconductor device, in the direction that produces the larger current
  • frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
  • frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
  • gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
  • garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
  • gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
  • gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
  • gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
  • go-away bird — a common name for a grey-plumaged lourie of the genus Corythaixoides
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
  • grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
  • 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.
  • griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
  • grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
  • hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
  • hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
  • herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
  • hybrid basis — A hybrid basis is a system of accounting that combines some of the features of cost basis with some of the features of accrual basis.
  • 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.)
  • impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
  • imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
  • increditable — (rare) Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
  • indeliberate — done without care; special planning or deliberation; unintentional.
  • india rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
  • indian bread — corn bread.
  • indian cobra — a highly venomous cobra, Naja naja, common in India, having markings resembling a pair of spectacles on the back of the hood.
  • 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.
  • informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
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