11-letter words containing a, b, d, u
- dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- durableness — Durability.
- dustbin man — (in British English) a man that is employed to collect domestic refuse
- educability — capable of being educated.
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- guttae band — regula.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hunchbacked — humpbacked.
- husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
- husbandland — the holding once held by a husband or tenant farmer or the quantity of land held by him, approximately 32 acres
- husbandless — Without a husband.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- indian club — a metal or wooden club shaped like a large bottle, swung singly or in pairs for exercising the arms.
- indubitable — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
- indubitably — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- infundibula — Plural form of infundibulum.
- inturbidate — to make turbid
- judeophobia — Alternative case form of Judeophobia.
- labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
- landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
- landlubbing — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
- lateral bud — axillary bud.
- laudability — Laudableness.
- launderable — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
- liquidambar — any tree of the genus Liquidambar, including the sweet gum.
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- masturbated — Simple past tense and past participle of masturbate.