12-letter words containing b, e, d, i
- paedobaptist — a person who baptizes infants
- paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
- peptide bond — a covalent bond formed by joining the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another, with the removal of a molecule of water.
- pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
- pig breeding — the act or process of getting pigs to reproduce
- pigeon blood — dark red.
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- purblindness — the state of being purblind
- 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.
- ragged robin — a plant, Lychnis flos-cuculi, of the pink family, having pink or white flowers with dissected petals.
- raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
- raisin bread — dough baked with dried grapes
- rating badge — a badge that indicates the rank and specialty of a petty officer: worn on the upper left sleeve.
- re-embroider — to embroider again
- re-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
- reattributed — 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.
- recalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- red brigades — an extreme leftist terrorist organization in Italy.
- redistribute — to distribute again or anew: The corporation will redistribute its share of the profits to its stockholders.
- reducibility — capable of being reduced.
- reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
- reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- review board — panel appointed to reconsider a matter
- ride a hobby — to be excessively devoted to one's favorite pastime or subject
- roller blind — a blind consisting of a length of fabric rolled around a pole and fitted to the top of a window
- ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
- sb's insides — the internal organs of the body, esp the stomach and bowels
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
- seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
- sebacic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 1 0 H 1 8 O 4 , usually obtained from castor oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of plasticizers and resins.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- self-blinded — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- sewn binding — a style of binding where the backs of the gathered sections are sewn together before being inserted into a cover
- side by side — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- single blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
- single-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
- sir bedivere — (in Arthurian legend) a knight who took the dying King Arthur to the barge in which he was carried to Avalon
- sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced