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12-letter words containing k, e, d

  • breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
  • breaker card — the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.
  • breckinridge — John Cabell1821-75; vice president of the U.S. (1857-61); Confederate general
  • 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
  • broken chord — a chord played as an arpeggio
  • 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
  • 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.
  • cackermander — a friend
  • caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
  • candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
  • cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
  • carrick bend — type of knot
  • checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
  • cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
  • chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
  • chicken head — (graphics, abuse)   The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
  • chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
  • cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
  • cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
  • closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
  • cockeyed bob — a short, violent storm.
  • cockeyedness — the condition of being cockeyed
  • compound key — (database)   (Or "multi-part key", "concatenated key") A key which consists of more than one attribute of the body of information (e.g. database "record") it identifies.
  • crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
  • cracker feed — Cracker feed is the raw materials used in different cracking processes.
  • credit check — a check performed by a company selling goods on credit to establish if a potential customer is creditworthy
  • crosschecked — Simple past tense and past participle of crosscheck.
  • damask steel — Damascus steel
  • damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
  • dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
  • dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
  • dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
  • dark lantern — a lantern having a sliding shutter or panel to dim or hide the light
  • dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
  • dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
  • daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
  • dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
  • daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
  • deck officer — a ship's officer who is part of the deck crew
  • deck passage — overnight accommodation on a vessel other than in a regular sleeping space.
  • deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
  • deckle-edged — having a deckle edge: deckle-edged paper for stationery.
  • dedekind cut — a method of according the same status to irrational and rational numbers, devised by Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831–1916)
  • deep kissing — the act of taking part in a deep kiss
  • deep linking — Digital Technology. the practice of using a link that sends traffic to an internal web page with more relevant or specific content, rather than to the website's home page, as to increase user engagement.
  • deep pockets — If you say that a person or organization has deep pockets, you mean that they have a lot of money with which to pay for something.
  • deerstalkers — Plural form of deerstalker.
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