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12-letter words that end in d

  • blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
  • block island — an island off the coast of and a part of Rhode Island, at the E entrance to Long Island Sound.
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
  • blue dogwood — a shrub or small tree, Cornus alternifolia, of eastern North America, having clusters of white flowers and bluish fruit.
  • blue-blooded — A blue-blooded person is from a royal or noble family.
  • body-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
  • bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
  • boletic acid — fumaric acid.
  • boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
  • booch method — (programming)   A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
  • boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
  • border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
  • bosom friend — an intimate friend
  • bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • bottom round — a cut of beef taken from outside the round, which is below the rump and above the upper leg.
  • brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
  • break ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • breaker card — the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
  • broad-minded — If you describe someone as broad-minded, you approve of them because they are willing to accept types of behaviour which other people consider immoral.
  • broken chord — a chord played as an arpeggio
  • broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
  • buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
  • bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
  • buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
  • bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • business end — The business end of a tool or weapon is the end of it which does the work or causes damage rather than the end that you hold.
  • butyric acid — type of acid
  • 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.
  • call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
  • call-by-need — (reduction)   A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • calling card — A calling card is a small card with personal information about you on it, such as your name and address, which you can give to people when you go to visit them.
  • cannibalised — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise.
  • cannibalized — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalize.
  • cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
  • cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
  • cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
  • cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
  • caproic acid — oily acid found in milk
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