11-letter words containing b, o, a, r, d, n
- dragon book — (publication) The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
- drainboards — Plural form of drainboard.
- embryonated — Containing an embryo.
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- labradorean — of or relating to Labrador.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
- mantelboard — mantel.
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
- nonreadable — unreadable.
- noticeboard — Alternative spelling of notice board.
- ordeal bean — Calabar bean.
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- parson bird — tui.
- power brand — a brand of product that is a household name associated with a successful company
- preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- radiocarbon — Also called carbon 14. a radioactive isotope of carbon with mass number 14 and a half-life of about 5730 years: widely used in the dating of organic materials.
- raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
- roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
- round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
- round table — conference, meeting
- round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
- slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
- spoon bread — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- store brand — an item offered for sale under a store's own label.
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret