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12-letter words containing b, o, d, i

  • dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
  • disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
  • discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
  • discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
  • disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
  • disemboweled — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
  • disembroiled — Simple past tense and past participle of disembroil.
  • dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
  • disinhibitor — Something that causes a reduction in one's inhibitions; that makes people, or animals act more impulsively.
  • disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
  • dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
  • distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
  • distributors — Plural form of distributor.
  • diving board — a springboard.
  • do one's bit — a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
  • domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • 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 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.
  • drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
  • dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
  • dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
  • embroiderers — Plural form of embroiderer.
  • embroideries — Plural form of embroidery.
  • embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
  • endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
  • english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • food subsidy — a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, farmers, or consumers, in order to make low-cost food available to the poor
  • 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
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