12-letter words containing g, d, b
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- class b drug — (in Britain) any of the second most dangerous group of controlled drugs, including amphetamine
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- demobilizing — Present participle of demobilize.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- diagrammable — able to be diagrammed or representable by a diagram
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- dining table — a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disburdening — Present participle of disburden.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembedding — Present participle of disembed.
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- dismembering — Present participle of dismember.
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- diving board — a springboard.
- dog and bone — a telephone
- dole bludger — a person who collects unemployment benefits but makes no serious effort to get work.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
- double eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., issued from 1849 to 1933, equal to 2 eagles or 20 dollars.
- double fugue — a fugue with two subjects developed simultaneously.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- double-edged — having two cutting edges, as a razor blade.
- double-glaze — If someone double-glazes a house or its windows, they fit windows that have two layers of glass which keeps the inside of the house warmer and quieter.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.