11-letter words containing b, o, u, r, d
- do sb proud — If someone does you proud, they treat you very well, for example by welcoming you and giving you good food and entertainment.
- do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
- do your bit — contribute
- doorbusters — Plural form of doorbuster.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- double room — double (def 13).
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- double-reed — of or relating to wind instruments producing sounds through two reeds fastened and beating together, as the oboe.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- doubletrees — Plural form of doubletree.
- doxorubicin — a cytotoxic antibiotic, C 27 H 29 NO 11 , derived from a variety of the bacterium Streptomyces peucetius and used in the treatment of sarcoma, malignant lymphoma, acute leukemia, and other cancers.
- drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- 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.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- 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.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- honor bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honor-bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
- moorbuzzard — a bird of prey known as the marsh harrier, Circus Aeruginosus
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
- mutton bird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- muttonbirds — Plural form of muttonbird.
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
- north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- order about — to bully or domineer
- ouija board — board used by spiritualists
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- oxford blue — a dark blue colour