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12-letter words that end in ed

  • bicycle shed — a shed for bicycle storage
  • bird-brained — silly; stupid
  • black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
  • blackhearted — wicked; evil
  • blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • 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
  • boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
  • brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
  • 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.
  • bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • captive-bred — bred in captivity
  • caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • cardinal red — a deep, vivid red colour
  • carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • casehardened — Simple past tense and past participle of caseharden.
  • cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
  • cataphracted — covered with an armor of horny or bony plates or scales.
  • catheterized — Simple past tense and past participle of catheterize.
  • certificated — A certificated person has been awarded a certificate to prove that they have achieved a certain level or standard.
  • chandeliered — having a chandelier
  • char-grilled — Char-grilled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
  • chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
  • childproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of childproof.
  • chloroformed — Simple past tense and past participle of chloroform.
  • cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
  • circularised — Simple past tense and past participle of circularise.
  • circularized — Simple past tense and past participle of circularize.
  • circumflexed — (linguistics, of a written word) exhibiting circumflex accent.
  • circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • circumvolved — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvolve.
  • civic-minded — having, showing, or actively carrying out one's concern for the condition and affairs of one's community; public-spirited
  • civilianized — Simple past tense and past participle of civilianize.
  • clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
  • clean-handed — free from wrongdoing; guiltless.
  • clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
  • clear-headed — If you describe someone as clear-headed, you mean that they are sensible and think clearly, especially in difficult situations.
  • clearsighted — seeing clearly
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