12-letter words containing e, l, d
- bermuda lily — a lily, Lilium longiflorum eximium, having white, funnel-shaped flowers, cultivated especially as an Easter lily.
- bespectacled — Someone who is bespectacled is wearing glasses.
- bevel siding — siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.
- bewilderedly — in a bewildered manner
- bewilderment — Bewilderment is the feeling of being bewildered.
- bicycle shed — a shed for bicycle storage
- bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
- billiard cue — a long cue used for playing billiards
- billy wilder — Billy (Samuel Wilder) 1906–2002, U.S. film director, producer, and writer; born in Austria.
- bindle stiff — a hobo.
- bird colonel — a full colonel in the US Army
- black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
- black medick — a small European leguminous plant, Medicago lupulina, with trifoliate leaves, small yellow flowers, and black pods
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
- blackhearted — wicked; evil
- bladder fern — a small fern, Cystoperis fragilis, with graceful lanceolate leaves, typically growing on limestone rocks and walls
- bladder kelp — any of various giant brown algae with air bladders that buoy up the leafy portions
- bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
- bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- bleed sb dry — If someone is being bled dry or is being bled white, all of their money or other resources are gradually being taken away from them.
- bleeder tile — a terra-cotta pipe for conveying water from a drainage tile to a sewer or drain.
- blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
- blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
- blind roller — a long ocean swell that rises almost to breaking as it passes over shoals.
- blind-emboss — blind-stamp.
- blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
- blocked shoe — a dancing shoe with a stiffened toe that enables a ballet dancer to dance on the tips of the toes
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
- blood sister — a sister by birth
- blood vessel — Blood vessels are the narrow tubes through which your blood flows.
- blood volume — the total quantity of blood in the body
- bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
- 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.
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blue devil's — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue dogwood — a shrub or small tree, Cornus alternifolia, of eastern North America, having clusters of white flowers and bluish fruit.
- blue-blooded — A blue-blooded person is from a royal or noble family.
- body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
- body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
- bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- 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.
- 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