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11-letter words containing b, e, d, o

  • 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.
  • broederbond — (in South Africa) a secret society of Afrikaner Nationalists committed to securing and maintaining Afrikaner control over important areas of government
  • broken reed — a weak, unreliable, or ineffectual person
  • broken wind — heaves
  • broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
  • bronze dore — ormolu (def 2).
  • brotherhood — Brotherhood is the affection and loyalty that you feel for people who you have something in common with.
  • brown bread — bread made with wholemeal flour, or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
  • browned off — If you say that you are browned off, you mean that you are annoyed and depressed.
  • browned-off — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • buddy movie — a genre of film dealing with the relationship and adventures of two friends
  • buenos dias — good day; good morning
  • bullet wood — the wood of a bully tree.
  • bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
  • butenedioic — designating a type of acid
  • buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
  • buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
  • by order of — according to the command of
  • cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • cerebroside — any glycolipid in which N-acyl sphingosine is combined with glucose or galactose: occurs in the myelin sheaths of nerves
  • 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.
  • chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
  • chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
  • chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
  • cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
  • clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
  • closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
  • cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
  • club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
  • code number — a number used to identify something
  • codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
  • cohabitated — cohabit.
  • cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
  • coldblooded — having a body temperature that fluctuates, approximating that of the surrounding air, land, or water
  • colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
  • combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
  • comedy club — a club where stand-up comedians perform
  • commandable — able to be commanded
  • commendable — If you describe someone's behaviour as commendable, you approve of it or are praising it.
  • commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
  • concludable — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
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