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12-letter words containing b, e, d, c

  • dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
  • edible canna — a South American and West Indian herb, Canna edulis, having large sheathing leaves, red flowers, and edible rhizomes.
  • elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
  • fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
  • found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
  • french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
  • french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
  • 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.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • head balance — headstand.
  • herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
  • 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.)
  • incorrodible — incapable of being corroded; not corrodible
  • increditable — (rare) Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
  • incrossbreed — to breed (animals) by crossbreeding inbred parents, whether of the same or of different breeds
  • indeclinable — not capable of being declined; having no inflected forms: used especially of a word belonging to a form class most of whose members are declined, as the Latin adjective decem, “ten.”.
  • indefectible — not defectible; not liable to defect or failure.
  • indefectibly — In an indefectible manner.
  • 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.
  • leader block — Nautical. lead block.
  • leader cable — a submarine cable laid along a channel and emitting signals that a vessel can follow when visibility is poor.
  • may-december — of or designating a marriage or romantic relationship between a young person and a person who is considerably older
  • medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
  • much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
  • muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
  • non-credible — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.
  • noninducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
  • nonobedience — absence or lack of obedience.
  • notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
  • noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
  • obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
  • objectivized — to cause to become concrete or objective; objectify.
  • ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
  • overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
  • peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • radar beacon — a radar device at a fixed location that, on receiving a radar signal, automatically transmits a particular radar signal in reply, identifying itself and enabling navigators of ships and aircraft to determine their distance and direction from it.
  • radio beacon — a radio station that sends a characteristic signal so as to enable ships or airplanes to determine their position or bearing by means of a radio compass.
  • raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
  • recalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • record label — recorded music production company
  • reducibility — capable of being reduced.
  • reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
  • saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
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