12-letter words containing b, e, d, m
- double album — a commercial recording sold on two CDs or LPs
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double dummy — a variety of bridge for two players in which two hands are kept face down until the end of the bidding when both hands are exposed.
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double modal — a syntactic construction in which two modal auxiliaries occur consecutively within a clause, as might could in I might could help you.
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- dramatizable — Capable of being dramatized.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- dyer's-broom — woadwaxen.
- embeddedness — The property of being embedded.
- emblematized — Simple past tense and past participle of emblematize.
- embroiderers — Plural form of embroiderer.
- embroideries — Plural form of embroidery.
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- endomembrane — (biology) All the membraneous components inside a eukaryotic cell, including the nuclear envelope, endoplastic reticulum, and Golgi apparatus.
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- forebodement — The act of foreboding.
- gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- gimme birdie — a birdie in which the final putt is a gimme
- habilimented — Clothed.
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.
- icbm address — (networking, humour) (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- inadmissible — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- index number — a quantity whose variation over a period of time measures the change in some phenomenon.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- irredeemable — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
- irredeemably — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
- irremediable — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
- irremediably — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
- landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
- loose-limbed — having supple arms and legs: a loose-limbed athlete.
- make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
- male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
- mandibulated — Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- marriage bed — the bed in which a married couple sleep together
- mastoid bone — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- matabeleland — a region in Zimbabwe, formerly a province of Rhodesia, home to the Ndebele (Matabele).
- may-december — of or designating a marriage or romantic relationship between a young person and a person who is considerably older