11-letter words containing b, r, o, d
- 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.
- first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
- flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
- floorboards — Plural form of floorboard.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- forcing bid — a bid, often at a higher level than is required, that is understood to oblige the bidder's partner to reply
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- from abroad — from a foreign land or lands
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gold bronze — an alloy of about 90 percent copper, 5 percent zinc, 3 percent lead, and 2 percent tin.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
- goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
- gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
- granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard-bodied — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
- hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
- herb doctor — a person who practices healing by the use of herbs.
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- honor bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honor-bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- hoverboards — Plural form of hoverboard.
- hybrid corn — a crossbred corn, especially the grain of corn developed by hybridization of repeatedly self-pollinated, and therefore genetically pure, varieties.
- hybrid rock — an igneous rock formed by molten magma incorporating pre-existing rock through which it passes
- hydroborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several anions containing hydrogen bound to boron, especially the simplest one BH4-; any salt or complex containing such an anion.
- hydrobromic — of or derived from hydrobromic acid.
- hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .