11-letter words containing a, d, i, b
- backslidden — Past participle of backslide.
- backsliding — If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.
- 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
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bag of wind — windbag.
- bail bandit — a person who either commits a crime while on bail or who jumps bail and fails to appear in court
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- 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
- 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.
- bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
- 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
- barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
- barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
- barracudina — any of several slender, large-mouthed, pelagic fishes of the family Paralepididae.
- barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
- barricading — Present participle of barricade.
- basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
- base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
- basic dress — a simple, usually dark dress that may be worn with various accessories or in combination with other garments so that it is suitable for different occasions.
- basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
- bass fiddle — double bass.
- bastardised — Simple past tense and past participle of bastardise.
- bastardized — If you refer to something as a bastardized form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality.
- bastardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize.
- bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
- bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
- battlefield — A battlefield is a place where a battle is fought.
- baudrillard — Jean. 1929–2007, French sociologist and theorist of postmodernism; his books include Seduction (1979), America (1986), and The Spirit of Terrorism (2002)
- be hard hit — To be hard hit by something means to be affected very severely by it.
- beach drift — the drifting of sediments, especially marine sediments, in patterns parallel to the contours of a beach, due to the action of waves and currents.
- beach ridge — a ridge just inland from a beach, consisting of sand and gravel built up by storm waves
- beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
- bearded tit — a small European bird, Panurus biarmicus, found in reedy places, the male of which has a tuft of black feathers on each side of the face.
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- bertrandite — a mineral, hydrous beryllium silicate, Be 4 Si 2 O 7 (OH) 2 , colorless or pale yellow, with a vitreous luster, occurring as tabular or prismatic crystals in pegmatites and hydrothermal veins.
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- biddability — the condition or quality of being biddable
- bidding war — a situation in which multiple offerers bid to own a single property
- bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.