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12-letter words containing b, y, d

  • cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
  • cyberfriends — Plural form of cyberfriend.
  • daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
  • day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
  • deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
  • debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
  • decasyllabic — having ten syllables: a decasyllabic verse.
  • decasyllable — a word or line of verse consisting of ten syllables
  • decidability — the capability of being decided
  • definability — The quality of being definable.
  • delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
  • deliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
  • delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
  • derivability — The condition of being derivable.
  • desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
  • determinably — In a determinable way.
  • detonability — the quality of being detonable
  • diabolically — having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked: a diabolic plot.
  • dicarboxylic — containing two carboxyl groups in the molecule
  • die horribly — (jargon)   The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
  • dilatability — The condition of being dilatable.
  • dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
  • disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
  • disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
  • dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
  • disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
  • dissyllabify — to make disyllabic
  • dissyllabism — the fact of having two syllables
  • dissyllabize — to disyllabize.
  • distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
  • disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
  • dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
  • divisibility — the capacity of being divided.
  • donkey derby — a race in which contestants ride donkeys, esp at a rural fête
  • double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
  • double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
  • double dummy — a variety of bridge for two players in which two hands are kept face down until the end of the bidding when both hands are exposed.
  • double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
  • double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
  • drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
  • drillability — Machinery, Building Trades. a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, especially by rotation. a tool, especially a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.
  • drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
  • 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.
  • dry-bone ore — a porous variety of smithsonite found near the surface of the earth.
  • dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
  • dunny budgie — a blowfly
  • dyer's-broom — woadwaxen.
  • dynamic dbms — dynamic database management system
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