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11-letter words containing d, o, n, b, a

  • dentolabial — (phonetics) articulated with the upper lip and lower teeth.
  • diabolizing — Present participle of diabolize.
  • diagnosable — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
  • diamond bar — a city in SW California.
  • diamondback — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
  • diving boat — a boat used as a tender for divers or others working under water.
  • do a job on — a piece of work, especially a specific task done as part of the routine of one's occupation or for an agreed price: She gave him the job of mowing the lawn.
  • dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
  • doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
  • double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
  • down-ballot — relating to or noting a candidate or political contest that is relatively low-profile and local compared to one listed in a higher place on the ballot: Very popular presidential nominees often cause down-ballot candidates to win.
  • dragon beam — dragging piece.
  • dragon book — (publication)   The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
  • drainboards — Plural form of drainboard.
  • embryonated — Containing an embryo.
  • fandabidozi — (British, informal) Very good.
  • fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
  • fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
  • floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
  • forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
  • frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
  • goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
  • granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
  • ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
  • ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
  • ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
  • ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
  • handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
  • header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
  • house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
  • hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
  • indominable — Lb alveolar intervocal flapping misspelling of indomitable.
  • indomitable — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • indomitably — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • isoantibody — (formerly) an alloantibody.
  • jacobinized — Simple past tense and past participle of jacobinize.
  • keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
  • labiodental — articulated with the lower lip touching the upper front teeth, as f or v, or, rarely, with the upper lip touching the lower front teeth.
  • labradorean — of or relating to Labrador.
  • langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
  • loading bay — dock where cargo is loaded
  • man and boy — from childhood
  • mantelboard — mantel.
  • mebendazole — an anthelmintic substance, C 1 6 H 1 3 N 3 O 3 , used for treating parasitic worm infestations.
  • monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
  • montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
  • niobic acid — a white, water-insoluble solid, Nb 2 O 5 ⋅nH 2 O.
  • non-abiding — continuing without change; enduring; steadfast: an abiding faith.
  • non-audible — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
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