12-letter words containing b, m, d
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- endomembrane — (biology) All the membraneous components inside a eukaryotic cell, including the nuclear envelope, endoplastic reticulum, and Golgi apparatus.
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- forebodement — The act of foreboding.
- gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- gimme birdie — a birdie in which the final putt is a gimme
- grand bahama — an island in the NW Bahamas. 430 sq. mi. (1115 sq. km).
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- habilimented — Clothed.
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- icbm address — (networking, humour) (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- inadmissible — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- inadmissibly — In an inadmissible way.
- index number — a quantity whose variation over a period of time measures the change in some phenomenon.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- infundibulum — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- irredeemable — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
- irredeemably — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
- irremediable — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
- irremediably — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
- lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
- liquidambars — Plural form of liquidambar.
- loose-limbed — having supple arms and legs: a loose-limbed athlete.
- make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
- male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
- malibu board — a lightweight, fiberglass-covered surfboard, usually about 10 feet (3 meters) long with a rounded nose and tail and a convex bottom for increased maneuverability.
- mandibulated — Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- marriage bed — the bed in which a married couple sleep together
- massaranduba — any of various evergreen trees of the genus Manilkara of the family Sapotaceae that are native to the tropics
- 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
- medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines