12-letter words containing b, i, d, n
- beijing duck — a roasted duck prized for its crisp skin, prepared by forcing air between skin and meat, brushing with sugar water, and hanging up to dry before final cooking.
- bendix drive — A Bendix drive is a drive consisting of a pinion wheel (= a gear with a small number of teeth) carried on a shaft. The shaft rotates, causing the pinion to move.
- benedict iii — died a.d. 858, pope 855–58.
- benedict vii — died a.d. 983, pope 974–83.
- benedict xii — (Jacques Fournier) died 1342, French ecclesiastic: pope 1334–42.
- benedict xiv — (Prospero Lambertini) 1675–1758, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1740–58; scholar and patron of the arts.
- benedict xvi — original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger. born 1927 in Germany, pope (2005–2013): the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415: on retirement he was accorded the title pope emeritus
- beneficiated — to treat (ore) to make more suitable for smelting.
- benzoic acid — a white crystalline solid occurring in many natural resins, used in the manufacture of benzoates, plasticizers, and dyes and as a food preservative (E210). Formula: C6H5COOH
- bevel siding — siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.
- bewilderment — Bewilderment is the feeling of being bewildered.
- beyond price — invaluable or priceless
- bias binding — a strip of material cut on the bias for extra stretch and often doubled, used for binding hems, interfacings, etc, or for decoration
- bid defiance — to resist boldly
- bien entendu — certainly; to be sure
- big-sounding — meant to be impressive in scale
- bill and coo — the parts of a bird's jaws that are covered with a horny or leathery sheath; beak.
- binary digit — either of the two digits 0 or 1, used in binary notation
- binder twine — a strong, coarse twine, as of sisal, used especially in binding sheaves of grain and bales of hay.
- binding post — one of several metal pegs or rods, fitted into a loose-leaf binder, for holding sheets with prepunched holes.
- bindle stiff — a hobo.
- bioflavonoid — any of a group of biologically active flavone compounds that may help maintain the blood's capillary walls, reducing the likelihood of hemorrhaging: widely found in plants, esp. citrus fruits
- bird colonel — a full colonel in the US Army
- bird fancier — a person who keeps, breeds, or sells birds
- bird nesting — the activity of searching for birds' nests as a hobby
- bird-brained — silly; stupid
- bird-dogging — to follow, watch carefully, or investigate.
- bird-s--nest — nest (def 1).
- bit diddling — bit bashing
- biting midge — any small fragile dipterous fly of the family Ceratopogonidae, most of which suck the blood of mammals, birds, or other insects
- bitter-ender — a person who persists in a hopeless cause; one who will not give in
- blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- blind casing — (in a box window frame) a rough framework to which the trim is secured.
- blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
- blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
- blind roller — a long ocean swell that rises almost to breaking as it passes over shoals.
- blind stitch — a type of stitch that is visible on one side of the material only
- blind summit — a point on a road where a vehicle approaching the top of a hill or incline cannot see vehicles approaching up the other side of the hill
- blind-emboss — blind-stamp.
- block island — an island off the coast of and a part of Rhode Island, at the E entrance to Long Island Sound.
- blood doping — the illegal practice of removing a quantity of blood from an athlete long before a race and reinjecting it shortly before a race, so boosting oxygenation of the blood
- blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- blood typing — the classification of human blood cells to determine compatible blood types as for transfusion or organ transplant
- bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
- blow molding — Blow molding is a process for forming plastic objects in which plastic is melted, put in a mold, and then shaped by having compressed air blown into it.