12-letter words containing b, r, e, d
- birth defect — an inherited disease or condition that a baby is born with
- bitter-ender — a person who persists in a hopeless cause; one who will not give in
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- blackhearted — wicked; evil
- bladder fern — a small fern, Cystoperis fragilis, with graceful lanceolate leaves, typically growing on limestone rocks and walls
- bladder kelp — any of various giant brown algae with air bladders that buoy up the leafy portions
- bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
- bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
- bleed sb dry — If someone is being bled dry or is being bled white, all of their money or other resources are gradually being taken away from them.
- bleeder tile — a terra-cotta pipe for conveying water from a drainage tile to a sewer or drain.
- blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
- blind roller — a long ocean swell that rises almost to breaking as it passes over shoals.
- blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- blood sister — a sister by birth
- bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
- board member — a member of board of directors
- boarder baby — an infant or young child who is abandoned or orphaned and left in a hospital for lack of a foster home.
- body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
- body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- body-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- bois de rose — a grayish red or dark purplish red color.
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- bonding wire — A bonding wire is a wire connecting two pieces of equipment, often for hazard prevention.
- boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
- boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
- booster dose — a supplementary injection of a vaccine given to maintain the immunization provided by an earlier dose
- border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- border state — a state adjacent to a border
- border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
- bosom friend — an intimate friend
- bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
- bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
- bottomfeeder — (networking) An RSS aggregator.
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
- bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- brand leader — The brand leader of a particular product is the brand of it that most people choose to buy.
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- brazen-faced — shameless or impudent