12-letter words containing i, d, o, t, b
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- direct labor — labor performed, as by workers on a production line, and considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disinhibitor — Something that causes a reduction in one's inhibitions; that makes people, or animals act more impulsively.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
- distributors — Plural form of distributor.
- do one's bit — a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
- domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- donets basin — a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- inobediently — disobediently
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- libidinosity — lustfulness
- lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
- mastoid bone — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- mouldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- non-dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- nonadiabatic — (of a physical reaction) not adiabatic or not occurring without heat loss or gain
- notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- obedientiary — The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
- objectivized — to cause to become concrete or objective; objectify.
- odontophobia — an unnatural dread or terror of teeth
- orbital road — a highway that circles a metropolitan area; ring road
- out-building — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- paedobaptist — a person who baptizes infants
- peptide bond — a covalent bond formed by joining the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another, with the removal of a molecule of water.
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.