12-letter words containing b, e, d, a, r
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- sword-bearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- terebic acid — an acid, C 7 H 10 O 4 , formed by the oxidation of certain terpenes and historically important in the discovery of the structures of many terpenes.
- the bereaved — the survivors of a person who has died recently
- 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.
- torpedo boat — a small, fast, highly maneuverable boat used for torpedoing enemy shipping.
- trabeculated — having trabeculae, transversely barred
- tribute band — A tribute band is a pop group that plays the music and copies the style of another, much more famous, pop group.
- tuberculated — bearing tubercles, knobbly projections or excrescences
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- un-liberated — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- unaffordable — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- unattributed — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- unbridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- uncalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- uncelebrated — not celebrated or marked by festivities; unremarked
- uncreditable — of ignoble character
- undeliberate — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- underbearing — unassuming
- underblanket — a blanket placed under a bottom sheet
- undertakable — able to be undertaken
- undeterrable — to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding: The large dog deterred trespassers.
- unelaborated — not elaborated
- unfabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- unformidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- uninebriated — to make drunk; intoxicate.
- unpardonable — kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience: I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?
- unrecordable — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
- unredeemable — capable of being redeemed.
- unrefundable — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- unremediable — capable of being remedied.
- unriddleable — (of a puzzle) not decipherable
- unverbalized — not verbalized or put into words
- urban legend — a modern story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms and often has elements of humor, moralizing, or horror: Are there alligators living in the New York City sewer system, or is that just an urban legend?
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
- warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
- water-budget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
- waterboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of waterboard.
- weatherboard — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
- withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- wobble board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument, producing a characteristic sound when flexed
- wood warbler — warbler (def 2).
- world beater — If you describe a person or thing as a world beater, you mean that they are better than most other people or things of their kind.
- world-beater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.