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

  • broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • broad-based — comprehensive and inclusive
  • broad-faced — having a broad, wide face.
  • broad-gauge — Railroads. of or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge: broad-gauge rolling stock.
  • broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
  • broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
  • broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
  • brown bread — bread made with wholemeal flour, or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • bubble card — blister pack.
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • buenos dias — good day; good morning
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bull header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • bull-headed — blindly obstinate; stubborn, headstrong, or stupid
  • bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
  • butterbread — bread spread with butter.
  • by the head — with the bow deeper in the water than the stern
  • cabbagehead — cabbage1 (def 2).
  • cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
  • cable modem — (communications, hardware)   A type of modem that allows people to access the Internet via their cable television service. A cable modem can transfer data at 500 kbps or higher, compared with 28.8 kbps for common telephone line modems, but the actual transfer rates may be lower depending on the number of other simultaneous users on the same cable. Industry pundits often point out that the cable system still does not have the bandwidth or service level in many areas to make this feasible. For example, it has to be capable of two-way communication. See also: DOCSIS.
  • cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
  • can't abide — If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much.
  • candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
  • candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
  • candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
  • carbamidine — guanidine.
  • carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
  • carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
  • carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
  • centerboard — a movable board or metal plate that, when lowered through a slot in the floor of a shallow-draft sailboat, functions like a keel to reduce leeward drift or increase stability, esp. one that moves on a pivot
  • centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
  • chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse
  • chambermaid — A chambermaid is a woman who cleans and tidies the bedrooms in a hotel.
  • charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
  • cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
  • chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
  • chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
  • chilblained — Afflicted with a chilblain.
  • child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
  • clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
  • cleanlimbed — having shapely limbs
  • cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
  • codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
  • cohabitated — cohabit.
  • combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
  • commandable — able to be commanded
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