12-letter words containing e, y, d
- bewilderedly — in a bewildered manner
- beyond doubt — You say that something is beyond doubt or beyond reasonable doubt when you are certain that it is true and it cannot be contradicted or disproved.
- beyond price — invaluable or priceless
- beyond reach — inaccessible
- bicycle shed — a shed for bicycle storage
- billy wilder — Billy (Samuel Wilder) 1906–2002, U.S. film director, producer, and writer; born in Austria.
- biodiversity — Biodiversity is the existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species living in their natural environment.
- bird of prey — A bird of prey is a bird such as an eagle or a hawk that kills and eats other birds and animals.
- black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
- 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.
- boarder baby — an infant or young child who is abandoned or orphaned and left in a hospital for lack of a foster home.
- 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
- body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- body-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
- 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.
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- break of day — dawn; daybreak.
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- buddy system — (in swimming and scuba diving) the practice of pairing swimmers, each being responsible for the other's safety.
- bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
- by deed poll — In Britain, if you change your name by deed poll, you change it officially and legally.
- by the dozen — in large quantities
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- calculatedly — in a calculated manner
- calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
- call-by-need — (reduction) A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
- calycoideous — calycoid
- camera ready — (publication) A final edition of a document or graphic (e.g. a newspaper advertisement or a technical paper for a journal) that is of suitable quality for mass reproduction by making printing plates from the negatives by photoengraving.
- camera-ready — designating or of copy, artwork, etc. that is ready to be photographed for making into a plate for printing
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cape cod bay — a part of Massachusetts Bay, enclosed by the Cape Cod peninsula.
- cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
- capraldehyde — (chemistry) decanal.
- caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
- carbohydrate — Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- carried away — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- cathode rays — a stream of electrons emitted from the surface of a cathode in a valve
- cetylic acid — palmitic acid.