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11-letter words containing d, a, h

  • 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.
  • 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
  • bear a hand — to give assistance
  • bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
  • behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
  • bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
  • ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
  • big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
  • birobidzhan — a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
  • black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
  • blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
  • blubberhead — a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
  • blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
  • board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
  • bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
  • bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • 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.
  • boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
  • bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • 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.
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
  • brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bull header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • bull-headed — blindly obstinate; stubborn, headstrong, or stupid
  • bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
  • bush ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
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