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11-letter words containing d, a, b

  • basel-stadt — a demicanton in N Switzerland: virtually coextensive with the city of Basel. 14 sq. mi. (36 sq. km). Capital: Basel.
  • basic dress — a simple, usually dark dress that may be worn with various accessories or in combination with other garments so that it is suitable for different occasions.
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • bass fiddle — double bass.
  • bastard cut — (of a file) having medium teeth; intermediate between a coarse cut and a fine cut
  • bastard pop — a type of popular music in which two records, usually from different genres or eras, are blended together into a whole, often using the vocal performance from one and the instrumental from the other
  • bastard son — an illegitimate son
  • bastard-saw — plain-saw.
  • bastardised — Simple past tense and past participle of bastardise.
  • bastardized — If you refer to something as a bastardized form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality.
  • bastardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize.
  • bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
  • bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
  • batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
  • battledores — Plural form of battledore.
  • battledress — the ordinary uniform of a soldier, consisting of tunic and trousers
  • battlefield — A battlefield is a place where a battle is fought.
  • baudot code — (communications)   (For etymology, see baud) A character set predating EBCDIC and used originally and primarily on paper tape. Use of Baudot reportedly survives in TDDs and some HAM radio applications. In Baudot, characters are expressed using five bits. Baudot uses two code sub-sets, the "letter set" (LTRS), and the "figure set" (FIGS). The FIGS character (11011) signals that the following code is to be interpreted as being in the FIGS set, until this is reset by the LTRS (11111) character. binary hex LTRS FIGS -------------------------- 00011 03 A - 11001 19 B ? 01110 0E C : 01001 09 D $ 00001 01 E 3 01101 0D F ! 11010 1A G & 10100 14 H # 00110 06 I 8 01011 0B J BELL 01111 0F K ( 10010 12 L ) 11100 1C M . 01100 0C N , 11000 18 O 9 10110 16 P 0 10111 17 Q 1 01010 0A R 4 00101 05 S ' 10000 10 T 5 00111 07 U 7 11110 1E V ; 10011 13 W 2 11101 1D X / 10101 15 Y 6 10001 11 Z " 01000 08 CR CR 00010 02 LF LF 00100 04 SP SP 11111 1F LTRS LTRS 11011 1B FIGS FIGS 00000 00 [..unused..] Where CR is carriage return, LF is linefeed, BELL is the bell, SP is space, and STOP is the stop character. Note: these bit values are often shown in inverse order, depending (presumably) which side of the paper tape you were looking at. Local implementations of Baudot may differ in the use of #, STOP, BELL, and '.
  • baudrillard — Jean. 1929–2007, French sociologist and theorist of postmodernism; his books include Seduction (1979), America (1986), and The Spirit of Terrorism (2002)
  • bawdy house — a brothel.
  • bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
  • be death on — to deal with in a devastating manner
  • be hard hit — To be hard hit by something means to be affected very severely by it.
  • be made one — (of a man and a woman) to become married
  • be prepared — to be willing and able (to do something)
  • beach drift — the drifting of sediments, especially marine sediments, in patterns parallel to the contours of a beach, due to the action of waves and currents.
  • beach ridge — a ridge just inland from a beach, consisting of sand and gravel built up by storm waves
  • beachy head — a headland in East Sussex, on the English Channel, consisting of chalk cliffs 171 m (570 ft) high
  • beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
  • beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
  • bear a hand — to give assistance
  • bear garden — (formerly) a place where bears were exhibited and where bear-baiting took place
  • bear leader — (formerly) a tutor traveling with a wealthy or aristocratic young man.
  • bearded tit — a small European bird, Panurus biarmicus, found in reedy places, the male of which has a tuft of black feathers on each side of the face.
  • beardedness — the quality of having a beard, the quality of being bearded
  • beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
  • bearer bond — a bond payable to the person in possession
  • beau dollar — a silver dollar.
  • beaverboard — a stiff light board of compressed wood fibre, used esp to surface partitions
  • bed and pep — (of a stock-exchange transaction) complying with regulations for self-select PEPs, a shareholding being sold in the evening and bought back the next morning for the shareholder's own PEP
  • bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
  • bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
  • bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
  • bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
  • been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
  • beer garden — a garden attached to a pub, where people can sit and drink beer
  • before dark — If you do something before dark, you do it before the sun sets and night begins.
  • behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
  • belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
  • beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
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