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11-letter words containing a, r, d

  • broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
  • broad-faced — having a broad, wide face.
  • broad-gauge — Railroads. of or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge: broad-gauge rolling stock.
  • broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
  • broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
  • 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.
  • brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
  • bromic acid — a colourless unstable water-soluble liquid used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: HBrO3
  • brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
  • broom board — baseboard (def 1).
  • brown bread — bread made with wholemeal flour, or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
  • brown dwarf — a type of celestial body midway in mass between a large planet and a small star
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • 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.
  • cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
  • cadastrally — from a cadastral point of view
  • caddie cart — a small two-wheeled cart used by golfers to carry their clubs.
  • 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
  • cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
  • 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.
  • cadwallader — a male given name.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • camaraderie — Camaraderie is a feeling of trust and friendship among a group of people who have usually known each other for a long time or gone through some kind of experience together.
  • camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
  • campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
  • canary seed — birdseed.
  • candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
  • candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
  • candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
  • candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
  • candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
  • cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
  • 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
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