11-letter words containing d, a, b
- backtracked — Simple past tense and past participle of backtrack.
- bactericide — a substance able to destroy bacteria
- bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
- bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
- baddeleyite — a mineral consisting largely of zirconium dioxide: a source of zirconium. Formula: ZrO2
- badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
- baden-baden — a spa in SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg. Pop: 53 938 (2003 est)
- badger game — the blackmailing of a man by maneuvering him into a compromising situation with a woman
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bag of wind — windbag.
- bagna cauda — a dip made from garlic, anchovies, butter, and olive oil, usually served hot over a spirit burner, with raw vegetables
- bail bandit — a person who either commits a crime while on bail or who jumps bail and fails to appear in court
- baked beans — Baked beans are dried beans cooked in tomato sauce in Britain or cooked with salt pork in North America. Baked beans are usually sold in cans.
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- baking dish — a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
- baking soda — Baking soda is the same as bicarbonate of soda.
- baldacchino — baldachin
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- ballhandler — a player particularly skilled at passing and dribbling
- balustraded — Having balustrades.
- balustrades — Plural form of balustrade.
- band leader — the leader of a group of musicians, esp those playing popular music
- band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
- banded pack — two products which are held together with a band and sold together at a discounted price
- bandeirante — a 16th–18th-century Portugese explorer in South America motivated by profit, known for hunting down natives for slaves as well as for locating mines of precious stones and metals
- banderillas — Plural form of banderilla.
- bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
- bandleaders — Plural form of bandleader.
- bandmasters — Plural form of bandmaster.
- bandy about — If someone's name or something such as an idea is bandied about or is bandied around, that person or that thing is discussed by many people in a casual way.
- bandy-bandy — a small Australian elapid snake, Vermicella annulata, ringed with black and yellow
- bandylegged — having bandy legs; bowlegged
- bandywallop — an imaginary town, far from civilization
- bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
- barbed tape — wire with razor-sharp edges or projections, placed in coils as a barrier along the tops of fences or walls, as at a prison.
- barbed wire — Barbed wire is strong wire with sharp points sticking out of it, and is used to make fences.
- barbie doll — a teenage doll with numerous sets of clothes and accessories
- barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
- bargeboards — Plural form of bargeboard.
- barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
- barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
- barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
- barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
- barracudina — any of several slender, large-mouthed, pelagic fishes of the family Paralepididae.
- barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
- barrelheads — Plural form of barrelhead.
- barricading — Present participle of barricade.
- basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
- base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
- basehearted — having a low, mean, or contemptible nature or character; meanspirited.