12-letter words containing b, e, d, l
- 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.
- doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
- dramatizable — Capable of being dramatized.
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- 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
- duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
- duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
- dutch belted — one of a breed of black dairy cattle, raised originally in the Netherlands, having a broad white band encircling the body.
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- 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.
- enderby land — part of the coastal region of Antarctica, between Kemp Land and Queen Maud Land: the westernmost part of the Australian Antarctic Territory (claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty); discovered in 1831
- endless belt — a continuous belt used in various applications, particularly to run over wheels
- 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
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
- 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.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- full-blooded — of unmixed ancestry; thoroughbred: a full-blooded Cherokee.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- gall bladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
- gallbladders — Plural form of gallbladder.
- 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