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11-letter words containing a, l, d, e

  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • 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.
  • boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
  • bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
  • bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
  • boulder dam — Hoover Dam
  • brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
  • brake pedal — (in a vehicle) a pedal that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
  • 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 plate — A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal.
  • breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
  • bridal wear — clothes specially designed for brides
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
  • 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.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bubble card — blister pack.
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • 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
  • 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.
  • cable modem — (communications, hardware)   A type of modem that allows people to access the Internet via their cable television service. A cable modem can transfer data at 500 kbps or higher, compared with 28.8 kbps for common telephone line modems, but the actual transfer rates may be lower depending on the number of other simultaneous users on the same cable. Industry pundits often point out that the cable system still does not have the bandwidth or service level in many areas to make this feasible. For example, it has to be capable of two-way communication. See also: DOCSIS.
  • cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
  • cadet cloth — a heavy woolen cloth of double-cloth construction and bluish-gray color, used especially for uniforms at military schools.
  • cadwallader — a male given name.
  • 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.
  • calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
  • camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
  • camouflaged — concealed or disguised
  • cancellated — Anatomy. of spongy or porous structure, as bone.
  • candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
  • candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
  • candle-foot — foot-candle
  • candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
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