11-letter words containing a, d, u
- beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
- ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
- bermuda bag — an oval-shaped handbag with wooden handles and changeable decorative cloth covers.
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- biquadratic — of or relating to the fourth power
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
- blubberhead — a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
- 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.
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
- bombay duck — a teleost fish, Harpodon nehereus, that resembles and is related to the lizard fishes: family Harpodontidae. It is eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
- boss around — order about
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
- 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)
- bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
- 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.
- broad gauge — a railway track with a greater distance between the lines than the standard gauge of 561⁄2 inches (about 1.44 metres) used now by most mainline railway systems
- broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
- broad-gauge — Railroads. of or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge: broad-gauge rolling stock.
- 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.
- brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
- bubble card — blister pack.
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bull header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
- bull-headed — blindly obstinate; stubborn, headstrong, or stupid
- 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.
- bumpsadaisy — an exclamation said to a child who has fallen down
- 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.
- bush ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
- but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
- butterbread — bread spread with butter.
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
- cadmium red — a pigment used in painting, consisting of the sulfide and the selinide of cadmium, characterized by its strong red or reddish color, excellent film-forming properties, and slow drying rate.
- 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.