11-letter words containing d, o, a, l
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- 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.
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
- blood-caked — caked with blood
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
- blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
- bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
- bottom lady — a pimp's most reliable prostitute.
- bottom land — bottom (def 4).
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam
- bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- 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.
- broad glass — cylinder glass.
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- cable modem — (communications, hardware) A type of modem that allows people to access the Internet via their cable television service. A cable modem can transfer data at 500 kbps or higher, compared with 28.8 kbps for common telephone line modems, but the actual transfer rates may be lower depending on the number of other simultaneous users on the same cable. Industry pundits often point out that the cable system still does not have the bandwidth or service level in many areas to make this feasible. For example, it has to be capable of two-way communication. See also: DOCSIS.
- cadet cloth — a heavy woolen cloth of double-cloth construction and bluish-gray color, used especially for uniforms at military schools.
- calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
- call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- camouflaged — concealed or disguised
- candle-foot — foot-candle
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- candy floss — cotton candy.
- cannabidiol — (organic compound) A non-psychoactive cannabinoid found in the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.
- cardholders — Plural form of cardholder.
- cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
- carloadings — the number of railroad carloads shipped in or out within a given period
- cattle prod — A cattle prod is an object shaped like a long stick. Farmers make cattle move in a particular direction by pushing the cattle prod against the bodies of the animals.
- caudillismo — a political system organized under the rule of a caudillo
- cephalopode — Archaic form of cephalopod.
- cephalopods — Plural form of cephalopod.
- chalcedonic — Of or pertaining to chalcedony.
- chalcedonyx — a variety of chalcedony characterized by alternate stripes of black and white
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.