12-letter words containing b, e, f, d
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- extended bnf — Extended Backus-Naur Form
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- 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.
- 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.
- forebodement — The act of foreboding.
- 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
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- full-blooded — of unmixed ancestry; thoroughbred: a full-blooded Cherokee.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- half-blooded — having parents of two different breeds, species, or the like.
- identifiable — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- identifiably — In a manner or state that is capable of being distinguished or named.
- indefeasible — not defeasible; not to be annulled or made void; not forfeitable.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
- indefectible — not defectible; not liable to defect or failure.
- indefectibly — In an indefectible manner.
- indefensible — not justifiable; inexcusable: indefensible behavior.
- indefensibly — In an indefensible manner.
- indefinables — Plural form of indefinable.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- nonforbidden — Unforbidden.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
- safety blade — a blade, as on a knife, razor, etc, with a guard to reduce the risk of accidental cutting
- self-blinded — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.