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

  • break bread — to eat a meal, esp with others
  • break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
  • breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
  • breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridal wear — clothes specially designed for brides
  • bride price — (in some societies) money, property, or services given by a bridegroom to the kinsmen of his bride in order to establish his rights over the woman
  • bride-to-be — A bride-to-be is a woman who is soon going to be married.
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridge deck — a deck on top of a bridge house; flying bridge.
  • bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
  • bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bridge roll — a soft bread roll in a long thin shape
  • bridge view — a town in NE Illinois.
  • bridgeboard — a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers
  • bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
  • bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
  • bristlebird — any of various Australian warblers of the genus Dasyornis.
  • broad gauge — a railway track with a greater distance between the lines than the standard gauge of 561⁄2 inches (about 1.44 metres) used now by most mainline railway systems
  • broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • broad-based — comprehensive and inclusive
  • broad-faced — having a broad, wide face.
  • broad-gauge — Railroads. of or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge: broad-gauge rolling stock.
  • broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
  • broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
  • 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.
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • bubble card — blister pack.
  • buffer fund — money put aside to help alleviate the adverse short-term effects of something
  • bull header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • 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.
  • butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
  • butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
  • butterbread — bread spread with butter.
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