11-letter words containing a, b, e, r, d, n
- breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
- break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
- breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
- bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
- 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
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- 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.
- 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
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- crabbedness — The state or quality of being crabbed.
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- dacarbazine — a toxic, light-sensitive powder, C 6 H 10 N 6 O, used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and metastatic malignant melanoma.
- dangleberry — a blue huckleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa), native to E North America
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
- decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
- defibrinate — to divest of fibrin or the protein formed in blood during clotting
- delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- diefenbaker — John George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
- discernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discernably — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
- dragon beam — dragging piece.
- drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- durableness — Durability.
- embryonated — Containing an embryo.
- energy band — a range of energies associated with the quantum states of electrons in a crystalline solid. In a semiconductor or an insulator there is a valence band containing many states, most of which are occupied. Above this is a forbidden band with only a few isolated states caused by impurities. Above this is a conduction band containing many states most of which are empty. In a metal there is a continuous valence-conduction band
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- garage band — a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.