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12-letter words containing b, l, e, d, i

  • distractible — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
  • domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • 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 first — a first in two subjects.
  • double helix — the spiral arrangement of the two complementary strands of DNA.
  • double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
  • double piece — a piece of plate armor for reinforcing or replacing a piece ordinarily used in a suit.
  • 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-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
  • double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
  • double-quick — very quick or rapid.
  • double-sided — double-faced (defs 2, 3).
  • 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.
  • dramatizable — Capable of being dramatized.
  • drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • elderberries — Plural form of elderberry.
  • elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
  • emblematized — Simple past tense and past participle of emblematize.
  • 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
  • equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
  • extraditable — (of a crime) rendering the offender liable to extradition
  • feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
  • fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
  • fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
  • 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.
  • forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
  • forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
  • 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
  • garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
  • 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
  • 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.
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
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