12-letter words containing b, i, d, n
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- diving board — a springboard.
- do one's bit — a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
- donets basin — a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- double-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias from the test results.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- dynamic dbms — dynamic database management system
- edible canna — a South American and West Indian herb, Canna edulis, having large sheathing leaves, red flowers, and edible rhizomes.
- edwin hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
- feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- 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.
- foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
- 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
- full binding — a complete binding of a volume in any one material, generally leather.
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- gender-blind — not discriminating on the basis of gender, or not making a distinction between the sexes
- gideon bible — a Bible purchased by members of a Christian organization (Gideons International) and placed in a hotel room, hospital ward, etc
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
- global index — (filename extension) (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
- gobind singh — 1666–1708, tenth and last guru of the Sikhs (1675–1708): assassinated
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.