11-letter words containing a, d, u, n
- aptitudinal — capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent: She has a special aptitude for mathematics.
- arduousness — requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking.
- arse around — If you say that someone is arsing around or arsing about, you mean that they are behaving in a silly, irritating way instead of getting something done.
- art student — a person studying art
- aru islands — a group of islands in Indonesia, in the SW Moluccas. Area: about 8500 sq km (3300 sq miles)
- assuredness — guaranteed; sure; certain; secure: an assured income.
- astoundment — the state of being astounded
- attitudinal — Attitudinal means related to people's attitudes and the way they look at their life.
- audibleness — The state or quality of being audible.
- auditionees — a person who competes or takes part in an audition.
- auditioning — Present participle of audition.
- autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
- autoloading — self-loading
- autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bagna cauda — a dip made from garlic, anchovies, butter, and olive oil, usually served hot over a spirit burner, with raw vegetables
- 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.
- barracudina — any of several slender, large-mouthed, pelagic fishes of the family Paralepididae.
- barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- 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.
- been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
- ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- 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.
- boss around — order about
- 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)
- broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- 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.
- bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
- 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.
- but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
- buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
- call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
- calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- canandaigua — a town in central New York.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
- canvas duck — a lightweight cotton or linen fabric.
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide