11-letter words containing a, b, e, d
- bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
- bachelordom — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- bacillicide — anything that kills a bacillus; a bactericide
- back garden — a garden at the rear of a house
- back-loaded — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- back-logged — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- back-paddle — to propel a boat by paddling backward, as by using a stroke in the direction of stern to bow.
- backchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of backcheck.
- backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
- backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
- backlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.
- backpedaled — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of backpedal.
- backside-to — backend-to.
- backslapped — Simple past tense and past participle of backslap.
- backslashed — Simple past tense and past participle of backslash.
- backslidden — Past participle of backslide.
- backstabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of backstab.
- backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
- backtracked — Simple past tense and past participle of backtrack.
- bactericide — a substance able to destroy bacteria
- bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
- baddeleyite — a mineral consisting largely of zirconium dioxide: a source of zirconium. Formula: ZrO2
- badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
- baden-baden — a spa in SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg. Pop: 53 938 (2003 est)
- badger game — the blackmailing of a man by maneuvering him into a compromising situation with a woman
- baked beans — Baked beans are dried beans cooked in tomato sauce in Britain or cooked with salt pork in North America. Baked beans are usually sold in cans.
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- ballhandler — a player particularly skilled at passing and dribbling
- balustraded — Having balustrades.
- balustrades — Plural form of balustrade.
- band leader — the leader of a group of musicians, esp those playing popular music
- band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
- banded pack — two products which are held together with a band and sold together at a discounted price
- bandeirante — a 16th–18th-century Portugese explorer in South America motivated by profit, known for hunting down natives for slaves as well as for locating mines of precious stones and metals
- banderillas — Plural form of banderilla.
- bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
- bandleaders — Plural form of bandleader.
- bandmasters — Plural form of bandmaster.
- bandylegged — having bandy legs; bowlegged
- bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
- barbed tape — wire with razor-sharp edges or projections, placed in coils as a barrier along the tops of fences or walls, as at a prison.
- barbed wire — Barbed wire is strong wire with sharp points sticking out of it, and is used to make fences.
- barbie doll — a teenage doll with numerous sets of clothes and accessories
- barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
- bargeboards — Plural form of bargeboard.
- barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
- barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
- barrelheads — Plural form of barrelhead.
- basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.