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

  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
  • blue devil's — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
  • blue dogwood — a shrub or small tree, Cornus alternifolia, of eastern North America, having clusters of white flowers and bluish fruit.
  • blue-blooded — A blue-blooded person is from a royal or noble family.
  • body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
  • body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
  • bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
  • boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
  • boletic acid — fumaric acid.
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
  • bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • brand leader — The brand leader of a particular product is the brand of it that most people choose to buy.
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
  • 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
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
  • broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
  • bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
  • bubble dance — a solo dance by a nude or nearly nude woman, as in a burlesque show, using one or more balloons for covering.
  • bubble under — to remain just beneath a particular level
  • 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.
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
  • bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • by deed poll — In Britain, if you change your name by deed poll, you change it officially and legally.
  • 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.
  • capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
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