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

  • bid defiance — to resist boldly
  • bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
  • billiard cue — a long cue used for playing billiards
  • biopesticide — a naturally occurring or derived substance or an organism that controls pests by nontoxic means
  • bird colonel — a full colonel in the US Army
  • bird fancier — a person who keeps, breeds, or sells birds
  • bird watcher — a person who identifies and observes birds in their natural habitat as a recreation.
  • bird-watcher — A bird-watcher is a person whose hobby is watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • birth defect — an inherited disease or condition that a baby is born with
  • black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
  • black medick — a small European leguminous plant, Medicago lupulina, with trifoliate leaves, small yellow flowers, and black pods
  • black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
  • black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
  • blackhearted — wicked; evil
  • bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
  • blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
  • blocked shoe — a dancing shoe with a stiffened toe that enables a ballet dancer to dance on the tips of the toes
  • bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
  • 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
  • body-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
  • boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
  • boletic acid — fumaric acid.
  • booch method — (programming)   A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
  • bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
  • branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
  • brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
  • breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
  • breaker card — the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.
  • breckinridge — John Cabell1821-75; vice president of the U.S. (1857-61); Confederate general
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
  • brevicaudate — having a short tail.
  • brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
  • bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • broken chord — a chord played as an arpeggio
  • bubble dance — a solo dance by a nude or nearly nude woman, as in a burlesque show, using one or more balloons for covering.
  • buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
  • cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
  • caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
  • 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.
  • cape cod bay — a part of Massachusetts Bay, enclosed by the Cape Cod peninsula.
  • capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
  • captive-bred — bred in captivity
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