12-letter words containing d, e, b, a, g
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- dog and bone — a telephone
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., issued from 1849 to 1933, equal to 2 eagles or 20 dollars.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double-glaze — If someone double-glazes a house or its windows, they fit windows that have two layers of glass which keeps the inside of the house warmer and quieter.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- 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.
- frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- 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.
- gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
- geneva bands — a pair of white lawn or linen strips hanging from the front of the neck or collar of some ecclesiastical and academic robes
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
- global index — (filename extension) (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- 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.
- hand baggage — the suitcases, bags, etc, that you take with you onto an aeroplane when you travel, as opposed to those bags that are put in the aeroplane's hold
- hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
- honey badger — ratel.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- land-grabber — a person who seizes land illegally or underhandedly.
- landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
- landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
- lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
- ledger board — a horizontal board, as in a fence.
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
- marriage bed — the bed in which a married couple sleep together