11-letter words containing a, d, b, s
- double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- douglas bag — an airtight bag used to collect expired air for analysis of oxygen consumption.
- douglas sbd — dauntless (def 2).
- drainboards — Plural form of drainboard.
- drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
- drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
- drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
- dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- durableness — Durability.
- dustbin man — (in British English) a man that is employed to collect domestic refuse
- embarrassed — Feeling or showing embarrassment.
- established — (of a custom, belief, practice, or institution) Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
- expandables — Plural form of expandable.
- expendables — Plural form of expendable.
- faith-based — affiliated with, supported by, or based on a religion or religious group: faith-based charities.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- flabagasted — Alternative form of flabbergasted.
- flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
- floorboards — Plural form of floorboard.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- gas bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- gas-bladder — a vesicle or sac containing air.
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- geodatabase — (geography, computing) A database containing geographical and spatial data.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- grand banks — an extensive shoal SE of Newfoundland: fishing grounds. 350 miles (565 km) long; 40,000 sq. mi. (104,000 sq. km).
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- haberdasher — a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard by sth — If one thing is hard by another, it is very close to it.
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- hoverboards — Plural form of hoverboard.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
- husbandland — the holding once held by a husband or tenant farmer or the quantity of land held by him, approximately 32 acres
- husbandless — Without a husband.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband