11-letter words containing d, a, r, b
- breadthways — from side to side
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
- break bread — to eat a meal, esp with others
- break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
- breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
- breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- bridal wear — clothes specially designed for brides
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
- bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
- bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bridgeboard — a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers
- bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
- 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 arrow — a mark shaped like a broad arrowhead designating British government property and formerly used on prison clothing
- broad gauge — a railway track with a greater distance between the lines than the standard gauge of 561⁄2 inches (about 1.44 metres) used now by most mainline railway systems
- broad glass — cylinder glass.
- broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- broad-based — comprehensive and inclusive
- broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
- broad-faced — having a broad, wide face.
- broad-gauge — Railroads. of or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge: broad-gauge rolling stock.
- broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
- broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
- broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
- brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
- bromic acid — a colourless unstable water-soluble liquid used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: HBrO3
- 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.
- broom board — baseboard (def 1).
- brown bread — bread made with wholemeal flour, or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
- brown dwarf — a type of celestial body midway in mass between a large planet and a small star
- 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.
- bubble card — blister pack.
- 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.
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- butterbread — bread spread with butter.
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
- cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- carbamidine — guanidine.