12-letter words containing d, e, b, n, s
- de bene esse — of validity for the time being but subject to objection or nullification at a later date; provisionally: to take evidence de bene esse to ensure against its loss.
- debonairness — The state or quality of being debonair.
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
- demibastions — Plural form of demibastion.
- demonstrable — A demonstrable fact or quality can be shown to be true or to exist.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- disablements — Plural form of disablement.
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disburdening — Present participle of disburden.
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembedding — Present participle of disembed.
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disinhibited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinhibit.
- dismembering — Present participle of dismember.
- disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- do one's bit — a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
- donets basin — a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- embeddedness — The property of being embedded.
- endless belt — a continuous belt used in various applications, particularly to run over wheels
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- 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.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- inadmissible — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- incrossbreed — to breed (animals) by crossbreeding inbred parents, whether of the same or of different breeds
- indebtedness — the state of being indebted.
- indefeasible — not defeasible; not to be annulled or made void; not forfeitable.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.