12-letter words containing d, e, b, u
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- duchesse bed — a bed having a suspended, full-length tester.
- duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
- dutch belted — one of a breed of black dairy cattle, raised originally in the Netherlands, having a broad white band encircling the body.
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- edwin hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- full-blooded — of unmixed ancestry; thoroughbred: a full-blooded Cherokee.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- 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
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- in (the) bud — in the time of budding
- index number — a quantity whose variation over a period of time measures the change in some phenomenon.
- india rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- laudableness — The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- mandibulated — Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.