12-letter words containing b, e, m, a, d
- 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
- 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
- messageboard — Alternative spelling of message board.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- murderabilia — objects that are regarded as valuable because of their connection with murders or other notorious crimes
- namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- oboe d'amore — a type of oboe pitched a minor third lower than the oboe itself. It is used chiefly in the performance of baroque music
- oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
- one-man band — A one-man band is a street entertainer who wears and plays a lot of different instruments at the same time.
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- payment bond — See under contract bond.
- 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.
- preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
- rhombohedral — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- slumbershade — sleep shade.
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- tom o'bedlam — a roving beggar afflicted with or feigning madness.
- tombstone ad — a boxed advertisement without artwork or illustrations, especially one announcing an issue of a stock or bond.
- tyndall beam — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- unformidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- unmodifiable — incapable of being modified
- unredeemable — capable of being redeemed.
- unremediable — capable of being remedied.
- unsublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
- wideband atm — (networking) An enhanced form of ATM networking that transfers digital data over local area networks, originally at 0.96 Gbps, now (Aug 1996) at 1.0 Gbps.