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

  • embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
  • endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
  • endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
  • english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
  • equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
  • extraditable — (of a crime) rendering the offender liable to extradition
  • feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
  • feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
  • ferry bridge — transporter bridge.
  • fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
  • fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
  • figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
  • fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
  • fixed bridge — a partial denture that is secured permanently in the mouth by being cemented to the adjacent teeth or roots.
  • flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
  • flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
  • float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
  • forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
  • forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
  • foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
  • frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
  • frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
  • gable window — a window in or under a gable.
  • gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
  • garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
  • gender-blind — not discriminating on the basis of gender, or not making a distinction between the sexes
  • get the bird — to be fired or dismissed
  • gideon bible — a Bible purchased by members of a Christian organization (Gideons International) and placed in a hotel room, hospital ward, etc
  • gimme birdie — a birdie in which the final putt is a gimme
  • gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
  • gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
  • glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
  • global index — (filename extension)   (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
  • griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
  • habilimented — Clothed.
  • hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
  • hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
  • hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
  • hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
  • hedenbergite — a contact metamorphic mineral of the pyroxene family, calcium ferrous silicate, CaFe(SiO 3) 2 , that forms black prismatic crystals in crystalline limestone.
  • herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
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