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12-letter words containing b, r, e, d

  • fixed bridge — a partial denture that is secured permanently in the mouth by being cemented to the adjacent teeth or roots.
  • flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
  • flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
  • 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.
  • flutterboard — a kickboard.
  • forebodement — The act of foreboding.
  • 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
  • french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
  • french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
  • frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
  • gall bladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
  • gallbladders — Plural form of gallbladder.
  • garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
  • 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
  • get the bird — to be fired or dismissed
  • gimme birdie — a birdie in which the final putt is a gimme
  • gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
  • gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
  • gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
  • glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
  • go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
  • god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
  • golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • 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.
  • griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • haberdashers — Plural form of haberdasher.
  • haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
  • hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
  • hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
  • handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
  • handsbreadth — A small distance.
  • harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
  • hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
  • hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
  • hedenbergite — a contact metamorphic mineral of the pyroxene family, calcium ferrous silicate, CaFe(SiO 3) 2 , that forms black prismatic crystals in crystalline limestone.
  • herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
  • herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
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