11-letter words containing b, a, r, d
- carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
- carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
- carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
- centerboard — a movable board or metal plate that, when lowered through a slot in the floor of a shallow-draft sailboat, functions like a keel to reduce leeward drift or increase stability, esp. one that moves on a pivot
- centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse
- chambermaid — A chambermaid is a woman who cleans and tidies the bedrooms in a hotel.
- charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
- cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- child labor — the regular, full-time employment of children under a legally defined age in factories, stores, offices, etc.: in the U.S., the minimum legal age under federal law is 16 (in hazardous occupations, 18)
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
- cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- contrabands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contraband.
- crab spider — any of a family (Thomisidae) of spiders that move sideways like crabs
- crabbedness — The state or quality of being crabbed.
- cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- dacarbazine — a toxic, light-sensitive powder, C 6 H 10 N 6 O, used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and metastatic malignant melanoma.
- daggerboard — a light bladelike board inserted into the water through a slot in the keel of a boat to reduce keeling and leeway
- dairy breed — any of several breeds of cattle developed primarily for production of milk rather than meat, as Ayrshire, Guernsey, Holstein, and Jersey breeds.
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- dangleberry — a blue huckleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa), native to E North America
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- day boarder — a child attending a boarding school who has meals at the school but sleeps at home
- day laborer — an unskilled worker paid by the day
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- dealbreaker — A dealbreaker is an issue that prevents people from reaching an agreement.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
- decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
- decarburize — decarbonize
- decerebrate — to remove the brain or a large section of the brain or to cut the spinal cord at the level of the brain stem of (a person or animal)
- defibrinate — to divest of fibrin or the protein formed in blood during clotting
- deflagrable — having the ability to burst into flames quickly
- deliberated — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deliberate.
- deliberator — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.