12-letter words containing d, e, t
- biting midge — any small fragile dipterous fly of the family Ceratopogonidae, most of which suck the blood of mammals, birds, or other insects
- bitter-ender — a person who persists in a hopeless cause; one who will not give in
- black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
- blackhearted — wicked; evil
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- bleeder tile — a terra-cotta pipe for conveying water from a drainage tile to a sewer or drain.
- blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
- blood sister — a sister by birth
- bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
- body-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- boletic acid — fumaric acid.
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
- boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
- booch method — (programming) A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
- booster dose — a supplementary injection of a vaccine given to maintain the immunization provided by an earlier dose
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- border state — a state adjacent to a border
- border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
- bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
- bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
- bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
- bottomfeeder — (networking) An RSS aggregator.
- bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
- bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
- breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
- breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
- brevicaudate — having a short tail.
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
- bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- buddy system — (in swimming and scuba diving) the practice of pairing swimmers, each being responsible for the other's safety.
- bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
- by the dozen — in large quantities
- cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
- cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
- cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
- caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.