11-letter words containing a, b, n, d
- bag of wind — windbag.
- bagna cauda — a dip made from garlic, anchovies, butter, and olive oil, usually served hot over a spirit burner, with raw vegetables
- bail bandit — a person who either commits a crime while on bail or who jumps bail and fails to appear in court
- 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.
- baking dish — a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
- baking soda — Baking soda is the same as bicarbonate of soda.
- baldacchino — baldachin
- ballhandler — a player particularly skilled at passing and dribbling
- 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.
- bandy about — If someone's name or something such as an idea is bandied about or is bandied around, that person or that thing is discussed by many people in a casual way.
- bandy-bandy — a small Australian elapid snake, Vermicella annulata, ringed with black and yellow
- bandylegged — having bandy legs; bowlegged
- bandywallop — an imaginary town, far from civilization
- bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
- barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
- barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
- barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
- barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
- barracudina — any of several slender, large-mouthed, pelagic fishes of the family Paralepididae.
- barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
- barricading — Present participle of barricade.
- bastard son — an illegitimate son
- bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
- bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
- batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
- be death on — to deal with in a devastating manner
- be made one — (of a man and a woman) to become married
- beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
- beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
- bear a hand — to give assistance
- bear garden — (formerly) a place where bears were exhibited and where bear-baiting took place
- beardedness — the quality of having a beard, the quality of being bearded
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- bearer bond — a bond payable to the person in possession
- bed and pep — (of a stock-exchange transaction) complying with regulations for self-select PEPs, a shareholding being sold in the evening and bought back the next morning for the shareholder's own PEP
- bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
- beer garden — a garden attached to a pub, where people can sit and drink beer
- behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
- belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
- belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.