12-letter words containing s, l, e, d
- bevel siding — siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.
- bicycle shed — a shed for bicycle storage
- bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
- bindle stiff — a hobo.
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- bleed sb dry — If someone is being bled dry or is being bled white, all of their money or other resources are gradually being taken away from them.
- blind-emboss — blind-stamp.
- blocked shoe — a dancing shoe with a stiffened toe that enables a ballet dancer to dance on the tips of the toes
- blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
- blood sister — a sister by birth
- blood vessel — Blood vessels are the narrow tubes through which your blood flows.
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- blue devil's — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
- body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
- bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
- breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
- caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
- caesar salad — Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs, cheese, and small pieces of fried bread, served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs.
- calycoideous — calycoid
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
- candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
- cannibalised — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise.
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
- cecil rhodes — Cecil John, 1853–1902, English colonial capitalist and government administrator in southern Africa.
- cedrelaceous — resembling or having the characteristics of a citron fruit
- charles drew — Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
- cheerleaders — Plural form of cheerleader.
- chef's salad — A chef's salad is a green salad with hard-boiled egg and strips of meat and cheese on top.
- chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- childishness — of, like, or befitting a child: childish games.
- chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
- chrysomelids — Plural form of chrysomelid.
- circularised — Simple past tense and past participle of circularise.
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- class method — (programming) 1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
- clear as mud — not at all clear