11-letter words containing a, r, d
- bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
- billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
- binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
- binary data — binary file
- bipyramidal — relating to a symmetrical structure consisting of two pyramids
- biquadratic — of or relating to the fourth power
- bird's beak — beak (def 9).
- birdbrained — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
- birobidzhan — a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
- black alder — a deciduous shrub (Ilex verticillata) of the holly family, native to E North America, with glossy leaves that turn black in the fall and bright-red berries
- black bread — a kind of very dark coarse rye bread
- black dwarf — a cold, dark dwarf star
- blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- bladderlike — resembling a bladder
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
- bleary-eyed — with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
- blizzarding — Meteorology. a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area.
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
- blubberhead — a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
- 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.
- blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
- 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.
- body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
- body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
- bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
- bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- border raid — an incursion by attackers into a neighbouring country
- boss around — order about
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam
- braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- bradycardia — an abnormally low rate of heartbeat
- bradycardic — a slow heartbeat rate, usually less than 60 beats per minute.