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11-letter words containing d, o, b, e, r

  • 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
  • cerebroside — any glycolipid in which N-acyl sphingosine is combined with glucose or galactose: occurs in the myelin sheaths of nerves
  • charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
  • cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
  • chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
  • chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
  • chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
  • cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
  • clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
  • code number — a number used to identify something
  • codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
  • cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
  • colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
  • combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
  • contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
  • corned beef — Corned beef is beef which has been cooked and preserved in salt water.
  • counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
  • counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
  • cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
  • crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
  • cross-breed — If one species of animal or plant cross-breeds with another, they reproduce, and new or different animals or plants are produced. You can also say that someone cross-breeds something such as an animal or plant.
  • crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
  • crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
  • crossbedded — having layers of rock oblique or transverse to the main beds of stratified rock
  • crossbreeds — Plural form of crossbreed.
  • crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
  • currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
  • daggerboard — a light bladelike board inserted into the water through a slot in the keel of a boat to reduce keeling and leeway
  • day boarder — a child attending a boarding school who has meals at the school but sleeps at home
  • day laborer — an unskilled worker paid by the day
  • de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
  • dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
  • debarkation — Disembarkation.
  • decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
  • decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
  • deliberator — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.
  • denver boot — A Denver boot is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The driver has to pay to have the device removed.
  • deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
  • deoxyribose — a pentose sugar obtained by the hydrolysis of DNA. Formula: C5H10O4
  • desk jobber — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
  • destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
  • disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
  • dive bomber — an airplane of the fighter-bomber type that drops its bombs while diving at the enemy.
  • dobbs ferry — a town in SE New York.
  • dobos torte — a rich cake having many thin layers of sponge cake with creamy mocha filling and a caramel glaze on top
  • dog breeder — a person who breeds canines
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