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11-letter words containing b, r, n

  • 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.
  • dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
  • dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
  • 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
  • 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-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)
  • defibrinate — to divest of fibrin or the protein formed in blood during clotting
  • delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.
  • 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
  • diamond bar — a city in SW California.
  • 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
  • disburdened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburden.
  • discernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • discernably — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • discernible — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • discernibly — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)
  • disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
  • distribuend — something that is distributed
  • disturbance — the act of disturbing.
  • do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
  • dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
  • doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
  • donnybrooks — Plural form of donnybrook.
  • double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
  • 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.
  • dragon beam — dragging piece.
  • 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.
  • drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
  • drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
  • drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
  • dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
  • durableness — Durability.
  • east berlin — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
  • elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
  • elaboration — The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
  • embarassing — Misspelling of embarrassing.
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