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

  • 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)
  • blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
  • bladderlike — resembling a bladder
  • blizzarding — Meteorology. a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • bradycardia — an abnormally low rate of heartbeat
  • bradycardic — a slow heartbeat rate, usually less than 60 beats per minute.
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • braggadocio — vain empty boasting
  • brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
  • brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • brain drain — When people talk about a brain drain, they are referring to the movement of a large number of scientists or academics away from their own country to other countries where the conditions and salaries are better.
  • brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
  • brandy mint — peppermint.
  • bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridal gown — a wedding dress
  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • 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.
  • bridgeboard — a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers
  • bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
  • 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.
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
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