11-letter words containing d, a, b
- land breeze — a coastal breeze blowing at night from land to sea, caused by the difference in the rate of cooling of their respective surfaces.
- land bridge — Geology. an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals: a prehistoric land bridge between Asia and North America.
- landgrabber — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
- landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
- landlubbing — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
- lapel badge — pin or button worn on the collar
- lateral bud — axillary bud.
- laudability — Laudableness.
- launderable — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- law-abiding — obeying or keeping the law; obedient to law: law-abiding citizens.
- layer board — lear board.
- leaderboard — a board on which the scores of the leading competitors are displayed, as in a golf tournament.
- ledger beam — a reinforced-concrete beam having projecting ledges for receiving the ends of joists or the like.
- lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
- liberalised — Simple past tense and past participle of liberalise.
- liberalized — Simple past tense and past participle of liberalize.
- light bread — white bread.
- like a bird — without resistance or difficulty
- liquidambar — any tree of the genus Liquidambar, including the sweet gum.
- loading bay — dock where cargo is loaded
- local derby — a football match between two teams from the same area
- lord cobham — title of Sir John Oldcastle
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
- mail bridge — (messaging) A mail gateway that forwards electronic mail messages between two or more networks if they meet certain administrative criteria.
- man and boy — from childhood
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- mantelboard — mantel.
- māori bread — bread made with fermented potato yeast
- masked ball — a ball at which masks are worn.
- masterbated — Misspelling of masturbated.
- masturbated — Simple past tense and past participle of masturbate.
- matchboards — Plural form of matchboard.
- meadow bird — the bobolink.
- mebendazole — an anthelmintic substance, C 1 6 H 1 3 N 3 O 3 , used for treating parasitic worm infestations.
- medicinable — medicinal.
- merit badge — an insignia or device granted by the Boy Scouts, worn especially on a uniform to indicate special achievement.
- metabolised — Simple past tense and past participle of metabolise.
- metabolized — Simple past tense and past participle of metabolize.
- misbalanced — badly balanced
- mislabelled — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- moldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
- moorbuzzard — a bird of prey known as the marsh harrier, Circus Aeruginosus
- mortarboard — a board, usually square, used by masons to hold mortar.
- motherboard — a rigid, slotted board upon which other boards that contain the basic circuitry of a computer or of a computer component can be mounted. Compare board (def 14).
- multibladed — having multiple blades