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12-letter words containing d, e, c, i, b, a

  • direct labor — labor performed, as by workers on a production line, and considered in computing costs per unit of production.
  • discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
  • discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
  • dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
  • displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
  • dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
  • distractable — Alternative form of distractible.
  • distractible — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
  • domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
  • edible canna — a South American and West Indian herb, Canna edulis, having large sheathing leaves, red flowers, and edible rhizomes.
  • elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
  • fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
  • garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
  • 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.
  • handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
  • herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
  • icbm address — (networking, humour)   (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
  • increditable — (rare) Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
  • indeclinable — not capable of being declined; having no inflected forms: used especially of a word belonging to a form class most of whose members are declined, as the Latin adjective decem, “ten.”.
  • ineradicable — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
  • ineradicably — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
  • notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
  • noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • radio beacon — a radio station that sends a characteristic signal so as to enable ships or airplanes to determine their position or bearing by means of a radio compass.
  • raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
  • recalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
  • scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
  • sebacic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 1 0 H 1 8 O 4 , usually obtained from castor oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of plasticizers and resins.
  • sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
  • soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
  • subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
  • suberic acid — a crystalline dibasic acid, C 8 H 1 4 O 4 , obtained especially from suberin, castor oil, and cork: used chiefly in the preparation of plastics and plasticizers.
  • teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • terebic acid — an acid, C 7 H 10 O 4 , formed by the oxidation of certain terpenes and historically important in the discovery of the structures of many terpenes.
  • uncalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • uncreditable — of ignoble character
  • unfabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
  • vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
  • wild cabbage — a European plant, Brassica oleracea, with broad leaves and a long spike of yellow flowers: the plant from which the cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprout have been bred
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