12-letter words containing l, d, r, i
- axillary bud — a bud that is borne at the axil of a leaf and is capable of developing into a branch shoot or flower cluster.
- bactericidal — any substance capable of killing bacteria.
- baker island — an island in the central Pacific near the equator, belonging to the U.S. 1 sq. mi. (2.6 sq. km).
- baldwin park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 76,000
- banderillero — a bullfighter's assistant who sticks banderillas into the bull
- barley field — a piece of land cleared of trees and undergrowth, usually enclosed with a fence or hedge and used for growing barley
- bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.
- beetle drive — a social occasion at which a progressive series of games of beetle is played
- begrudgingly — If you do something begrudgingly, you do it unwillingly.
- bermuda lily — a lily, Lilium longiflorum eximium, having white, funnel-shaped flowers, cultivated especially as an Easter lily.
- bewilderedly — in a bewildered manner
- bewilderment — Bewilderment is the feeling of being bewildered.
- billiard cue — a long cue used for playing billiards
- billy wilder — Billy (Samuel Wilder) 1906–2002, U.S. film director, producer, and writer; born in Austria.
- bird colonel — a full colonel in the US Army
- black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
- blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
- bleeder tile — a terra-cotta pipe for conveying water from a drainage tile to a sewer or drain.
- blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
- blind roller — a long ocean swell that rises almost to breaking as it passes over shoals.
- blitzkrieged — blitz (defs 1, 2, 5).
- blood sister — a sister by birth
- bloodthirsty — Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
- bloody shirt — something, as a political issue or historical event, that can be used to stir up outrage, partisan support, etc.
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- 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)
- brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
- bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- calendar api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
- 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.
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- cardinal red — a deep, vivid red colour
- cardinal sin — If you describe an action as a cardinal sin, you are indicating that some people strongly disapprove of it.
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.