12-letter words containing b, e, d, i
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disinhibited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinhibit.
- dismembering — Present participle of dismember.
- disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- dissyllabize — to disyllabize.
- distractable — Alternative form of distractible.
- distractible — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- distributees — Plural form of distributee.
- distributers — a person or thing that distributes.
- distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- do one's bit — a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
- domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- donets basin — a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- double helix — the spiral arrangement of the two complementary strands of DNA.
- double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
- double piece — a piece of plate armor for reinforcing or replacing a piece ordinarily used in a suit.
- double-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias from the test results.
- double-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- double-quick — very quick or rapid.
- double-sided — double-faced (defs 2, 3).
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- dramatizable — Capable of being dramatized.
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
- edible canna — a South American and West Indian herb, Canna edulis, having large sheathing leaves, red flowers, and edible rhizomes.
- edwin hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- elderberries — Plural form of elderberry.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- emblematized — Simple past tense and past participle of emblematize.
- embroiderers — Plural form of embroiderer.
- embroideries — Plural form of embroidery.