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

  • sober-minded — rational; sensible.
  • soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
  • speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • spellbinding — to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
  • spider's web — a mesh of fine tough scleroprotein threads built by a spider from a liquid secreted from its spinnerets and used to trap insects
  • straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
  • striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
  • sub-additive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
  • sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
  • subcivilized — not quite civilized
  • subdelirious — having the symptoms of subdelirium; suffering from subdelirium
  • subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
  • subdividable — to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
  • suberic acid — a crystalline dibasic acid, C 8 H 1 4 O 4 , obtained especially from suberin, castor oil, and cork: used chiefly in the preparation of plastics and plasticizers.
  • subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
  • subintroduce — to introduce subtly
  • subjectified — to make subjective.
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
  • swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
  • 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.
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • 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 dingbats — delirium tremens
  • the disabled — those who are physically or mentally disabled; the handicapped
  • the hebrides — a group of over 500 islands off the W coast of Scotland: separated by the North Minch, Little Minch, and the Sea of the Hebrides: the chief islands are Skye, Raasay, Rum, Eigg, Coll, Tiree, Mull, Jura, Colonsay, and Islay (Inner Hebrides), and Lewis with Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Barra (Outer Hebrides)
  • the old bill — policemen collectively or in general
  • the-firebird — a ballet (1910) with music by Stravinsky.
  • timberdoodle — the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
  • time-binding — the distinctively human attribute of preserving memories and records of experiences for the use of subsequent generations.
  • tribute band — A tribute band is a pop group that plays the music and copies the style of another, much more famous, pop group.
  • truss bridge — a bridge in which the loads are supported by trusses.
  • turbidimeter — a device for measuring the turbidity of water or other liquids.
  • turbidimetry — a device for measuring the turbidity of water or other liquids.
  • un-furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
  • un-inducible — 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.
  • un-liberated — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
  • 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.
  • unbefriended — having no friends or companions
  • unbenefitted — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
  • unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
  • 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).
  • uncreditable — of ignoble character
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