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

  • bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
  • 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.
  • bridgeboard — a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers
  • 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.
  • brown bread — bread made with wholemeal flour, or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
  • carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
  • carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
  • centerboard — a movable board or metal plate that, when lowered through a slot in the floor of a shallow-draft sailboat, functions like a keel to reduce leeward drift or increase stability, esp. one that moves on a pivot
  • centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
  • charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
  • cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
  • chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
  • chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
  • clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
  • codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
  • combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
  • cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
  • crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
  • crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
  • crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
  • daggerboard — a light bladelike board inserted into the water through a slot in the keel of a boat to reduce keeling and leeway
  • 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)
  • dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
  • debarkation — Disembarkation.
  • 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)
  • deliberator — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.
  • destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
  • disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
  • 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
  • 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-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • dragon beam — dragging piece.
  • embarcadero — (rare) A quay; a wharf.
  • embryonated — Containing an embryo.
  • emery board — abrasive tool for shaping fingernails
  • fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
  • footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
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