8-letter words containing b, e, d, c
- bucketed — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- cabbaged — Chiefly British. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cambered — Having camber.
- camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
- childbed — the condition of giving birth to a child
- clubhead — the head of a golf club
- codebook — a book containing the means to decipher a code
- codebtor — a fellow debtor
- coembody — to embody jointly
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combined — A combined effort or attack is made by two or more groups of people at the same time.
- corbeled — Alternative form of corbelled.
- could be — It's possible
- credible — Credible means able to be trusted or believed.
- credibly — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.
- creekbed — Alternative spelling of creek bed.
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- cumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of cumber.
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- datacube — Alternative spelling of data cube.
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- debouche — an outlet, as for troops to debouch through
- debounce — To remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.
- debrecen — a city in E Hungary: seat of the revolutionary government of 1849. Pop: 205 881 (2003 est)
- december — December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Western calendar.
- decibels — a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the pressure produced by the sound wave to a reference pressure, usually 0.0002 microbar.
- delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
- describe — If you describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened.
- diabetic — Diabetic is also an adjective.
- die back — If a plant dies back, its leaves die but its roots remain alive.
- disbench — to remove (a barrister or judge) from the membership of the governing body of one of the Inns of Court
- dulbecco — Renato [ruh-nah-toh;; Italian re-nah-taw] /rəˈnɑ toʊ;; Italian rɛˈnɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1914–2012, U.S. biologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
- educable — capable of being educated.
- educible — Able to be elicited or evoked.
- embraced — Hold (someone) closely in one's arms, esp. as a sign of affection.
- feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
- flockbed — a bed with a mattress stuffed with wool refuse, shearings of cloth, or the like.
- gladbeck — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W central Germany.
- icebound — held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship.
- jochebed — the mother of Aaron and Moses. Ex. 6:20.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- neckband — a band of cloth at the neck of a garment.
- objected — anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
- obscured — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obtected — (obsolete) covered; protected.