11-letter words containing a, d, l, n
- bail bandit — a person who either commits a crime while on bail or who jumps bail and fails to appear in court
- 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
- banderillas — Plural form of banderilla.
- bandleaders — Plural form of bandleader.
- 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.
- barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
- 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.
- 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.
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
- blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
- blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- blizzarding — Meteorology. a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area.
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
- blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
- blue-jeaned — wearing blue jeans.
- blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
- bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- bottom land — bottom (def 4).
- brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- 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.
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
- calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
- calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendarist — a person who calendarizes
- calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
- calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.