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12-letter words containing e, d, r, l

  • boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • 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
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • brand leader — The brand leader of a particular product is the brand of it that most people choose to buy.
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
  • brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • 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.
  • broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
  • broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
  • bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
  • bubble under — to remain just beneath a particular level
  • buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • caesar salad — Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs, cheese, and small pieces of fried bread, served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs.
  • calendar api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
  • calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
  • calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
  • cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
  • capraldehyde — (chemistry) decanal.
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • cardinal red — a deep, vivid red colour
  • cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
  • carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
  • cattle drive — the process of moving cattle across country, often carried out by cowboys on horseback
  • cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
  • cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
  • cave dweller — a prehistoric person; person who lives in a cave
  • cecil rhodes — Cecil John, 1853–1902, English colonial capitalist and government administrator in southern Africa.
  • cedrelaceous — resembling or having the characteristics of a citron fruit
  • center field — the middle area of the outfield
  • centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
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