11-letter words containing d, a, r, b
- 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
- 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.
- beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
- belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
- benderboard — pliable, lightweight board used for making concrete patios, in gardens, and as woven fencing: often 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) wide and 1/4 to 1/2 inch (0.6 to 1.2 cm) thick and made from California redwood.
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- bermuda bag — an oval-shaped handbag with wooden handles and changeable decorative cloth covers.
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- bertrandite — a mineral, hydrous beryllium silicate, Be 4 Si 2 O 7 (OH) 2 , colorless or pale yellow, with a vitreous luster, occurring as tabular or prismatic crystals in pegmatites and hydrothermal veins.
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- bidding war — a situation in which multiple offerers bid to own a single property
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
- billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
- binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
- binary data — binary file
- bipyramidal — relating to a symmetrical structure consisting of two pyramids
- biquadratic — of or relating to the fourth power
- bird's beak — beak (def 9).
- birdbrained — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
- birobidzhan — a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
- black alder — a deciduous shrub (Ilex verticillata) of the holly family, native to E North America, with glossy leaves that turn black in the fall and bright-red berries
- black bread — a kind of very dark coarse rye bread
- black dwarf — a cold, dark dwarf star
- blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- bladderlike — resembling a bladder
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
- bleary-eyed — with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
- blizzarding — Meteorology. a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area.
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l