12-letter words containing b, e, t, d
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double fault — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) two faults in succession, resulting in the loss of the point, the loss of the serve, or both.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
- double quote — (character) '"' ASCII character 34. Often used in programming languages to delimit strings. In Unix shells and Perl it delimits a string inside which variable substitution may occur. Common names: quote. Rare: literal mark; double-glitch; ITU-T: quotation marks; ITU-T: dieresis; dirk; INTERCAL: rabbit-ears; double prime.
- double steal — a play in which two base runners steal a base each.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- 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.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- dramatizable — Capable of being dramatized.
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- 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
- 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.
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- emblematized — Simple past tense and past participle of emblematize.
- endless belt — a continuous belt used in various applications, particularly to run over wheels
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- extended bnf — Extended Backus-Naur Form
- extraditable — (of a crime) rendering the offender liable to extradition
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- 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.
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- get the bird — to be fired or dismissed
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.