12-letter words containing n, b, e
- disembedding — Present participle of disembed.
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disinhibited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinhibit.
- dismembering — Present participle of dismember.
- disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- do one's bit — a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dog and bone — a telephone
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- 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.
- donkey derby — a race in which contestants ride donkeys, esp at a rural fête
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- double ender — a double-ended vessel.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias from the test results.
- double-ended — having the two ends alike.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- dry-bone ore — a porous variety of smithsonite found near the surface of the earth.
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- ear-grabbing — (of music) immediately capturing and holding the attention of listeners
- east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- ectosymbiont — (biology) A partner in a symbiotic relationship that remains on the surface of its host or occupies a body cavity.
- edible canna — a South American and West Indian herb, Canna edulis, having large sheathing leaves, red flowers, and edible rhizomes.
- edwin hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- eligibleness — Eligibility.
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- embarassment — Misspelling of embarrassment.
- embarrassing — Causing embarrassment.
- embattlement — (countable) A battlement.