11-letter words containing c, e, d
- beachy head — a headland in East Sussex, on the English Channel, consisting of chalk cliffs 171 m (570 ft) high
- becket bend — sheet bend
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- beiderbecke — Leon Bismarcke, known as Bix. 1903–31, US jazz cornettist, composer, and pianist
- belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
- below decks — If someone or something is below decks, they are inside a ship in the part of it that is underneath the deck.
- benedict ii — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
- benedict iv — died a.d. 903, pope 900–03.
- benedict ix — died 1056? pope 1032–44; 1045; 1047–48.
- benedict vi — died a.d. 974, pope 973–74.
- benedict xi — (Niccolò Boccasini) 1240–1304, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1303–04.
- benedict xv — original name Giacomo della Chiesa. 1854–1922, pope (1914–22); noted for his repeated attempts to end World War I and for his organization of war relief
- benedictine — A Benedictine is a monk or nun who is a member of a Christian religious community that follows the rule of St. Benedict.
- benediction — A benediction is a kind of Christian prayer.
- benedictive — relating to a benediction or blessing
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
- bid welcome — to receive with cordial greetings
- bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
- bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
- binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
- biomedicine — the medical study of the effects of unusual environmental stress on human beings, esp in connection with space travel
- bird cherry — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus padus, with clusters of white flowers and small black fruits
- bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- black alder — a deciduous shrub (Ilex verticillata) of the holly family, native to E North America, with glossy leaves that turn black in the fall and bright-red berries
- black bread — a kind of very dark coarse rye bread
- black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
- black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
- blackballed — to vote against (a candidate, applicant, etc.).
- blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- bleed screw — A bleed screw is a type of tap or valve that helps to drain a hydraulic system, such as a brake system.
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- blood-caked — caked with blood
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
- bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
- boric oxide — a colorless crystalline compound, B 2 O 3 , used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.
- braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless