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12-letter words containing s, a, b, d, e

  • harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • 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.
  • househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
  • hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
  • icbm address — (networking, humour)   (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
  • inadmissible — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
  • indefeasible — not defeasible; not to be annulled or made void; not forfeitable.
  • indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
  • indefinables — Plural form of indefinable.
  • indisposable — Not disposable.
  • indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
  • iskander bey — Scanderbeg.
  • keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
  • landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
  • laudableness — The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
  • leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
  • lord's table — the, communion table.
  • mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
  • 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.
  • messageboard — Alternative spelling of message board.
  • motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
  • namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
  • non-disabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
  • noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
  • obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
  • paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
  • paedobaptist — a person who baptizes infants
  • pebbledashed — covered with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • port de bras — (used with a singular verb) the technique of moving the arms properly.
  • poster board — a thick, fairly stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together and typically used to support displays.
  • prayer beads — the beads of the rosary
  • preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
  • preset board — a control board for setting up theatrical lighting switches and dimmer readings in advance so that during a performance the lights can be automatically operated for one or several scenes.
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
  • raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
  • raisin bread — dough baked with dried grapes
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • red brigades — an extreme leftist terrorist organization in Italy.
  • rhabdosphere — a minute sphere made up of rhabdoliths
  • saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
  • safety blade — a blade, as on a knife, razor, etc, with a guard to reduce the risk of accidental cutting
  • salad basket — a basket in which washed salad greens are swung or spun to remove excess water.
  • salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
  • san bernardo — a city in central Chile, S of Santiago.
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