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11-letter words containing d, a, t

  • balustrades — Plural form of balustrade.
  • 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
  • bandmasters — Plural form of bandmaster.
  • bandy about — If someone's name or something such as an idea is bandied about or is bandied around, that person or that thing is discussed by many people in a casual way.
  • 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.
  • barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
  • barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
  • basehearted — having a low, mean, or contemptible nature or character; meanspirited.
  • basel-stadt — a demicanton in N Switzerland: virtually coextensive with the city of Basel. 14 sq. mi. (36 sq. km). Capital: Basel.
  • 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.
  • bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
  • bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
  • 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
  • battlefield — A battlefield is a place where a battle is fought.
  • baudot code — (communications)   (For etymology, see baud) A character set predating EBCDIC and used originally and primarily on paper tape. Use of Baudot reportedly survives in TDDs and some HAM radio applications. In Baudot, characters are expressed using five bits. Baudot uses two code sub-sets, the "letter set" (LTRS), and the "figure set" (FIGS). The FIGS character (11011) signals that the following code is to be interpreted as being in the FIGS set, until this is reset by the LTRS (11111) character. binary hex LTRS FIGS -------------------------- 00011 03 A - 11001 19 B ? 01110 0E C : 01001 09 D $ 00001 01 E 3 01101 0D F ! 11010 1A G & 10100 14 H # 00110 06 I 8 01011 0B J BELL 01111 0F K ( 10010 12 L ) 11100 1C M . 01100 0C N , 11000 18 O 9 10110 16 P 0 10111 17 Q 1 01010 0A R 4 00101 05 S ' 10000 10 T 5 00111 07 U 7 11110 1E V ; 10011 13 W 2 11101 1D X / 10101 15 Y 6 10001 11 Z " 01000 08 CR CR 00010 02 LF LF 00100 04 SP SP 11111 1F LTRS LTRS 11011 1B FIGS FIGS 00000 00 [..unused..] Where CR is carriage return, LF is linefeed, BELL is the bell, SP is space, and STOP is the stop character. Note: these bit values are often shown in inverse order, depending (presumably) which side of the paper tape you were looking at. Local implementations of Baudot may differ in the use of #, STOP, BELL, and '.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
  • bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
  • belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
  • belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
  • bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
  • 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
  • biddability — the condition or quality of being biddable
  • bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
  • big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
  • binary data — binary file
  • binucleated — having two nuclei
  • biquadratic — of or relating to the fourth power
  • black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
  • bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
  • blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
  • blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
  • bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
  • block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
  • boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
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