11-letter words containing d, a, b
- niobic acid — a white, water-insoluble solid, Nb 2 O 5 ⋅nH 2 O.
- non-abiding — continuing without change; enduring; steadfast: an abiding faith.
- non-audible — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- nondiabetic — (medicine) Not suffering from diabetes.
- nondisabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
- nonreadable — unreadable.
- noticeboard — Alternative spelling of notice board.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- objet d'art — an object of artistic worth or curiosity, especially a small object.
- obliterated — to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
- odd-job man — An odd-job man is a man who is paid to do various jobs such as cleaning or repairing things, usually in someone's home.
- odontoblast — one of a layer of cells lining the pulp cavity of a tooth, from which dentin is formed.
- ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
- on stand-by — in a state of readiness for action or use
- ordeal bean — Calabar bean.
- order about — to bully or domineer
- otter board — one of a pair of large, heavy, square or rectangular plates or boards of metal or weighted wood attached to the trawl lines on each side of the mouth of a trawl net to maintain lateral spread during trawling.
- ouija board — board used by spiritualists
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- oxford bags — trousers with very wide baggy legs, originally popular in the 1920s
- paddle ball — a game similar to handball, but played with a short-handled, perforated paddle
- paddle boat — small boat with pedals
- paddleboard — a type of surfboard with one end rounded and the other tapered to a point, used chiefly in surfing and often in lifesaving.
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- parson bird — tui.
- passed ball — a pitched ball that the catcher can reasonably be expected to catch but misses, resulting in a base runner's or runners' advancing one or more bases or in the batter's reaching first base safely.
- payload bay — cargo bay.
- pebble dash — an exterior wall finish composed of mortar against which, while still wet, small pebbles have been thrown and pressed in.
- pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
- pedobaptist — a person who advocates or practices pedobaptism.
- persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
- pineal body — (formerly) the pineal gland.
- pitta bread — a flat rounded slightly leavened bread, originally from the Middle East, with a hollow inside like a pocket, which can be filled with food
- pobeda peak — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan range. 24,406 feet (7439 meters).
- power brand — a brand of product that is a household name associated with a successful company
- preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- prediabetes — a condition in which carbohydrate metabolism is mildly abnormal but other criteria indicating diabetes mellitus are absent.
- prediabetic — a person suffering from prediabetes
- predictable — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- predictably — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pyramid bet — a set of bets on two or more horse races or other sporting events in which the stake and winnings from the first bet automatically become the stake in the next bet, and so on as long as each bet wins.
- quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
- rabbit food — raw vegetables, especially those used in salads, as lettuce, carrots, radishes, or celery.
- radiability — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.