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

  • boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
  • border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
  • border state — a state adjacent to a border
  • border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
  • bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
  • bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
  • bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
  • brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
  • branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
  • brand leader — The brand leader of a particular product is the brand of it that most people choose to buy.
  • brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
  • brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
  • bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
  • bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
  • breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • break ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • break of day — dawn; daybreak.
  • breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
  • breaker card — the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
  • brevicaudate — having a short tail.
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bridge a gap — to remedy a deficiency
  • bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
  • 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.
  • bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
  • bubble dance — a solo dance by a nude or nearly nude woman, as in a burlesque show, using one or more balloons for covering.
  • 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.
  • burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
  • caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • cape cod bay — a part of Massachusetts Bay, enclosed by the Cape Cod peninsula.
  • capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
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