12-letter words containing t, e, l, d
- applied arts — arts that are put to practical use
- armor-plated — An armor-plated vehicle or building has a hard metal covering in order to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- arrival date — Your arrival date is the date that you are expected to come to a hotel or other location.
- arterialized — Simple past tense and past participle of arterialize.
- artiodactyle — (zoology) One of the Artiodactyla, a group of ungulates.
- autodiallers — Plural form of autodialler.
- bactericidal — any substance capable of killing bacteria.
- ballad metre — the metre of a ballad stanza
- bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.
- bastille day — (in France) an annual holiday on July 14, commemorating the fall of the Bastille
- battle dress — military field uniform and accouterments, generally camouflaged and stripped of all ornamentation.
- battlefields — Plural form of battlefield.
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
- battlemented — Furnished with battlements, as the ramparts of a city or castle.
- bedazzlement — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- beetle drive — a social occasion at which a progressive series of games of beetle is played
- beetleheaded — like a beetlehead; stupid
- befuddlement — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
- bespectacled — Someone who is bespectacled is wearing glasses.
- bewilderment — Bewilderment is the feeling of being bewildered.
- bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
- bindle stiff — a hobo.
- black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
- blackhearted — wicked; evil
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- bleeder tile — a terra-cotta pipe for conveying water from a drainage tile to a sewer or drain.
- blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
- blood sister — a sister by birth
- bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- boletic acid — fumaric acid.
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
- bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
- bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
- breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
- bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
- 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
- cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
- calculatedly — in a calculated manner
- calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.