12-letter words containing r, e, d, b, l
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- dramatizable — Capable of being dramatized.
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- elderberries — Plural form of elderberry.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- enderby land — part of the coastal region of Antarctica, between Kemp Land and Queen Maud Land: the westernmost part of the Australian Antarctic Territory (claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty); discovered in 1831
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- extraditable — (of a crime) rendering the offender liable to extradition
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- 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.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- gall bladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
- gallbladders — Plural form of gallbladder.
- garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
- gender-blind — not discriminating on the basis of gender, or not making a distinction between the sexes
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.