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12-letter words containing e, d, i, n, b

  • fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • 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.
  • forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
  • forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
  • foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
  • gable window — a window in or under a gable.
  • gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
  • gender-blind — not discriminating on the basis of gender, or not making a distinction between the sexes
  • gideon bible — a Bible purchased by members of a Christian organization (Gideons International) and placed in a hotel room, hospital ward, etc
  • gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
  • gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
  • glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
  • global index — (filename extension)   (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • 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.
  • habilimented — Clothed.
  • hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
  • handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
  • hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
  • hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
  • hedenbergite — a contact metamorphic mineral of the pyroxene family, calcium ferrous silicate, CaFe(SiO 3) 2 , that forms black prismatic crystals in crystalline limestone.
  • herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
  • homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
  • identifiable — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
  • identifiably — In a manner or state that is capable of being distinguished or named.
  • impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
  • imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
  • in (the) bud — in the time of budding
  • inadmissible — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
  • incorrodible — incapable of being corroded; not corrodible
  • increditable — (rare) Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
  • incrossbreed — to breed (animals) by crossbreeding inbred parents, whether of the same or of different breeds
  • indebtedness — the state of being indebted.
  • 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.”.
  • indefeasible — not defeasible; not to be annulled or made void; not forfeitable.
  • indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
  • indefectible — not defectible; not liable to defect or failure.
  • indefectibly — In an indefectible manner.
  • indefensible — not justifiable; inexcusable: indefensible behavior.
  • indefensibly — In an indefensible manner.
  • indefinables — Plural form of indefinable.
  • indeliberate — done without care; special planning or deliberation; unintentional.
  • indelibility — making marks that cannot be erased, removed, or the like: indelible ink.
  • index number — a quantity whose variation over a period of time measures the change in some phenomenon.
  • india rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
  • indian bread — corn bread.
  • indigestible — not digestible; not easily digested.
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