11-letter words containing b, r, o, d
- browned-off — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
- 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.
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- by order of — according to the command of
- 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
- cerebroside — any glycolipid in which N-acyl sphingosine is combined with glucose or galactose: occurs in the myelin sheaths of nerves
- 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.
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
- 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)
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- code number — a number used to identify something
- codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
- cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
- cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
- color-blind — Someone who is color-blind cannot see the difference between colors, especially between red and green.
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
- colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- comorbidity — the occurrence of more than one illness or condition at the same time
- contrabands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contraband.
- contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
- corned beef — Corned beef is beef which has been cooked and preserved in salt water.
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
- cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- cross-breed — If one species of animal or plant cross-breeds with another, they reproduce, and new or different animals or plants are produced. You can also say that someone cross-breeds something such as an animal or plant.
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
- crossbedded — having layers of rock oblique or transverse to the main beds of stratified rock
- crossbreeds — Plural form of crossbreed.
- crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
- currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
- 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.