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11-letter words containing d, a, r, b

  • 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.
  • badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
  • badger game — the blackmailing of a man by maneuvering him into a compromising situation with a woman
  • bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • baudrillard — Jean. 1929–2007, French sociologist and theorist of postmodernism; his books include Seduction (1979), America (1986), and The Spirit of Terrorism (2002)
  • be hard hit — To be hard hit by something means to be affected very severely by it.
  • 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
  • beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
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