12-letter words containing d, e, s, u, b
- duchesse bed — a bed having a suspended, full-length tester.
- 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.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- 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.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- laudableness — The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
- 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.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- purblindness — the state of being purblind
- re-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- redistribute — to distribute again or anew: The corporation will redistribute its share of the profits to its stockholders.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rubber goods — contraceptives; condoms
- salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
- secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- slumbershade — sleep shade.
- student body — all the students enrolled at an educational institution.
- stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
- sub-additive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- subcivilized — not quite civilized
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdebutante — a young woman who has not yet made her debut into society.
- subdelirious — having the symptoms of subdelirium; suffering from subdelirium
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subdividable — to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- 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.
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subjectified — to make subjective.
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subsaturated — soaked, impregnated, or imbued thoroughly; charged thoroughly or completely; brought to a state of saturation.