11-letter words containing a, b
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
- brandenburg — a state in NE Germany, part of East Germany until 1990. A former electorate, it expanded under the Hohenzollerns to become the kingdom of Prussia (1701). The district east of the Oder River became Polish in 1945. Capital: Potsdam. Pop: 2 575 000 (2003 est). Area: 29 481 sq km (11 219 sq miles)
- brandy mint — peppermint.
- brandy snap — Brandy snaps are very thin crisp biscuits in the shape of hollow cylinders. They are flavoured with ginger and are often filled with cream.
- branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
- brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
- brass tacks — basic realities; hard facts (esp in the phrase get down to brass tacks)
- brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
- bratticings — a series of temporary wooden housings erected on top of a wall, esp a castle wall
- brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
- brattleboro — a town in SE Vermont.
- bravo-river — Mexican Rio Bravo. a river flowing from SW Colorado through central New Mexico and along the boundary between Texas and Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
- brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
- brazzaville — the capital of Congo-Brazzaville, in the south on the River Congo. Pop: 1 153 000 (2005 est)
- bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
- bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- bread plate — A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal.
- bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
- breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
- breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1. (web) Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2. (programming) Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- breadthways — from side to side
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
- break a leg — to performer: good luck
- break bread — to eat a meal, esp with others
- break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
- break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
- break in on — to intrude on
- break it up — stop fighting
- break loose — to free oneself by force
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- break ranks — to fall out of line, esp when under attack
- breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
- breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
- breast beam — a horizontal bar, located at the front of a loom, over which the woven material is passed on its way to the cloth roll.
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
- breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
- breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
- breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- breath test — A breath test is a test carried out by police in which a driver blows into a piece of equipment to show how much alcohol he or she has drunk.