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11-letter words containing a, i, r, d, s

  • aru islands — a group of islands in Indonesia, in the SW Moluccas. Area: about 8500 sq km (3300 sq miles)
  • ascertained — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • aspidistras — Plural form of aspidistra.
  • asteroidean — an echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, comprising the starfishes.
  • audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
  • auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
  • auditorship — the position or function of auditor
  • autodialers — Plural form of autodialer.
  • autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
  • avoirdupois — a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton
  • 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.
  • bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
  • banderillas — Plural form of banderilla.
  • barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
  • barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
  • bestridable — capable of being bestridden
  • bird's beak — beak (def 9).
  • bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • 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.
  • caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
  • caird coast — a region of Antarctica: a part of Coats Land on the SE coast of the Weddell Sea; now included in the British Antarctic Territory (claim suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959)
  • calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendarist — a person who calendarizes
  • cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
  • caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
  • cardiograms — Plural form of cardiogram.
  • cardiospasm — failure of the muscle fibers at the lower end of the esophagus to relax, resulting in swallowing difficulty and regurgitation.
  • carloadings — the number of railroad carloads shipped in or out within a given period
  • caro's acid — persulfuric acid (def 1).
  • carotenoids — Plural form of carotenoid.
  • cassiodorus — Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ˈfleɪvɪəs ˈmæɡnəs ɔːˈriːlɪəs). ?490–?585 ad, Roman statesman, writer, and monk; author of Variae, a collection of official documents written for the Ostrogoths
  • casting rod — a fishing rod, generally 4–8 feet (1.2–2.4 meters) long, for casting bait or lures with a reel mounted near the handle that enables the thumb or finger to control the line during a cast, including rods used for bait casting and spinning.
  • categorised — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • centralised — to draw to or gather about a center.
  • chandeliers — Plural form of chandelier.
  • chandleries — Plural form of chandlery.
  • chrysalidal — relating to a chrysalis or stage in the development of an insect
  • chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
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