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