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

  • blue murder — If you say that someone screams blue murder or screams bloody murder, you are emphasizing that they are making a lot of noise or fuss about something that they do not like.
  • 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.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  • blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
  • board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
  • body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
  • boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
  • bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
  • bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
  • bonderizing — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
  • boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
  • bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
  • border line — boundary line; frontier.
  • border raid — an incursion by attackers into a neighbouring country
  • bored stiff — very bored
  • boric oxide — a colorless crystalline compound, B 2 O 3 , used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.
  • borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
  • boulder dam — Hoover Dam
  • bow divider — a bow compass, each leg of which terminates in a needle, used to transfer measurements from one area of a drawing to another.
  • braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
  • brake pedal — (in a vehicle) a pedal that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
  • 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.
  • brandenburg — a state in NE Germany, part of East Germany until 1990. A former electorate, it expanded under the Hohenzollerns to become the kingdom of Prussia (1701). The district east of the Oder River became Polish in 1945. Capital: Potsdam. Pop: 2 575 000 (2003 est). Area: 29 481 sq km (11 219 sq miles)
  • brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
  • brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
  • bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
  • bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
  • bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
  • bread plate — A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal.
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
  • breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1.   (web)   Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2.   (programming)   Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • 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.
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