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11-letter words containing d, e, b, n

  • bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
  • 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.
  • best friend — a dearest friend
  • bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • bindheimite — a mineral, hydrous antimonate of lead, resulting from the alteration of lead antimony ores.
  • bindingness — the quality of being binding
  • bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
  • binucleated — having two nuclei
  • biomedicine — the medical study of the effects of unusual environmental stress on human beings, esp in connection with space travel
  • biomodeling — the mathematical modeling of biological reactions.
  • bird's nest — the nest of a bird
  • bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
  • birdbrained — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
  • bitterender — a person who persists until the bitter end without compromising or yielding; diehard.
  • blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
  • bladdernose — hooded seal
  • blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
  • blessedness — consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified: the Blessed Sacrament.
  • blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
  • blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
  • blind tiger — speak-easy
  • blind-sided — Sports. to tackle, hit, or attack (an opponent) from the blind side: The quarterback was blindsided and had the ball knocked out of his hand.
  • blindfolded — wearing a blindfold
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
  • blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
  • blood money — If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation.
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
  • blue-jeaned — wearing blue jeans.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  • blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
  • bobsledding — a sled having two pairs of runners, a brake, and a steering wheel or other mechanism that enables the front rider to direct the sled down a steeply banked run or chute.
  • bodgo gegen — a former Buddhist leader of the Mongols.
  • bogged down — If you get bogged down in something, it prevents you from making progress or getting something done.
  • bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
  • bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
  • bonderizing — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
  • bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • book-ending — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
  • bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
  • boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
  • border line — boundary line; frontier.
  • boumedienne — Houari (ˈhaʊərɪ). 1927–78, Algerian statesman and soldier: president of Algeria (1965–78) after overthrowing Ben Bella in a coup
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