12-letter words containing d, a, y, b
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- dynamic dbms — dynamic database management system
- edward abbey — Edward, 1927–89, U.S. novelist and nature writer.
- enderby land — part of the coastal region of Antarctica, between Kemp Land and Queen Maud Land: the westernmost part of the Australian Antarctic Territory (claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty); discovered in 1831
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- go-away bird — a common name for a grey-plumaged lourie of the genus Corythaixoides
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
- gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
- graybar land — (jargon) The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- hideaway bed — a sofa, loveseat, etc., that can be converted into a bed, usually by folding out a concealed mattress and springs.
- honey badger — ratel.
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- hybrid basis — A hybrid basis is a system of accounting that combines some of the features of cost basis with some of the features of accrual basis.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
- identifiably — In a manner or state that is capable of being distinguished or named.
- in a bad way — not good in any manner or degree.
- inadmissibly — In an inadmissible way.
- inaudibility — not audible; incapable of being heard.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- ineradicably — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
- irredeemably — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
- irremediably — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
- iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- 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.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- library card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
- may-december — of or designating a marriage or romantic relationship between a young person and a person who is considerably older
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- mouldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- obedientiary — The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
- off broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- off-broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- olivary body — one of two oval bodies or prominences composed of nerve tissue, one on each side of the anterior surface of the medulla oblongata.
- pastry board — a flat board on which pastry is rolled
- payment bond — See under contract bond.
- peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.