11-letter words containing d, e, b, n
- boundedness — the quality of being bounded
- brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
- brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
- brandenburg — a state in NE Germany, part of East Germany until 1990. A former electorate, it expanded under the Hohenzollerns to become the kingdom of Prussia (1701). The district east of the Oder River became Polish in 1945. Capital: Potsdam. Pop: 2 575 000 (2003 est). Area: 29 481 sq km (11 219 sq miles)
- brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
- bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
- breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
- break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
- breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- broederbond — (in South Africa) a secret society of Afrikaner Nationalists committed to securing and maintaining Afrikaner control over important areas of government
- broken reed — a weak, unreliable, or ineffectual person
- broken wind — heaves
- broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
- bronze dore — ormolu (def 2).
- brown bread — bread made with wholemeal flour, or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
- browned off — If you say that you are browned off, you mean that you are annoyed and depressed.
- browned-off — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
- bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- buckskinned — made of buckskin
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- buffer fund — money put aside to help alleviate the adverse short-term effects of something
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bull-necked — having a short thick neck
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
- but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
- butenedioic — designating a type of acid
- buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
- buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
- cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
- can't abide — If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- carbamidine — guanidine.
- carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
- carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
- centerboard — a movable board or metal plate that, when lowered through a slot in the floor of a shallow-draft sailboat, functions like a keel to reduce leeward drift or increase stability, esp. one that moves on a pivot
- centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
- chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse
- chilblained — Afflicted with a chilblain.
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- cleanlimbed — having shapely limbs
- code number — a number used to identify something