11-letter words containing b, r, e, d
- dacarbazine — a toxic, light-sensitive powder, C 6 H 10 N 6 O, used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and metastatic malignant melanoma.
- daggerboard — a light bladelike board inserted into the water through a slot in the keel of a boat to reduce keeling and leeway
- dairy breed — any of several breeds of cattle developed primarily for production of milk rather than meat, as Ayrshire, Guernsey, Holstein, and Jersey breeds.
- dangleberry — a blue huckleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa), native to E North America
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- day boarder — a child attending a boarding school who has meals at the school but sleeps at home
- day laborer — an unskilled worker paid by the day
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- dealbreaker — A dealbreaker is an issue that prevents people from reaching an agreement.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- debridement — the surgical removal of dead tissue or cellular debris from the surface of a wound
- debriefings — Plural form of debriefing.
- debt burden — A debt burden is a large amount of money that one country or organization owes to another and which they find very difficult to repay.
- debt crisis — a situation in which the large debts owed by a number of individuals, organizations or countries threaten to overwhelm them, so that they become unable to service their debts which, in turn, may threaten the stability of larger structures
- debt relief — Debt relief is a reduction in the amount of debt that a country has to pay.
- debt-ridden — Debt-ridden countries, companies, or people owe extremely large amounts of money.
- decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
- decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
- decarburize — decarbonize
- decerebrate — to remove the brain or a large section of the brain or to cut the spinal cord at the level of the brain stem of (a person or animal)
- decerebrize — to remove the cerebrum of (an animal)
- deck bridge — a bridge with an upper horizontal beam that carries the roadway
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- defibrinate — to divest of fibrin or the protein formed in blood during clotting
- deflagrable — having the ability to burst into flames quickly
- deliberated — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deliberate.
- deliberator — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.
- deliverable — capable of delivery.
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- denver boot — A Denver boot is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The driver has to pay to have the device removed.
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- deoxyribose — a pentose sugar obtained by the hydrolysis of DNA. Formula: C5H10O4
- depreciable — able to be depreciated for tax deduction
- depressible — that can be depressed
- descrambled — Simple past tense and past participle of descramble.
- descrambler — unscrambler (def 2).
- describable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- desk jobber — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
- destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
- detribalise — Alt form detribalize.
- detribalize — to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their characteristic customs or social, religious, or other organizational features
- deverbative — a word formed or derived from a verb
- diefenbaker — John George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
- dingleberry — Slang. a small clot of dung, as clinging to the hindquarters of an animal.
- dinner bell — signal: dinnertime