11-letter words containing b, r, o, a, d
- 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.
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
- 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
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- 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.
- child labor — the regular, full-time employment of children under a legally defined age in factories, stores, offices, etc.: in the U.S., the minimum legal age under federal law is 16 (in hazardous occupations, 18)
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
- cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- contrabands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contraband.
- 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.
- diamond bar — a city in SW California.
- 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.
- dolabriform — shaped like an ax or a cleaver.
- dollar bill — a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- 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.
- draft board — a board of civilians charged with registering, classifying, and selecting persons for U.S. military service.
- 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.
- dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
- embarcadero — (rare) A quay; a wharf.
- embryonated — Containing an embryo.
- emery board — abrasive tool for shaping fingernails
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.