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11-letter words containing d, r, e, a, n

  • band leader — the leader of a group of musicians, esp those playing popular music
  • band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
  • bandeirante — a 16th–18th-century Portugese explorer in South America motivated by profit, known for hunting down natives for slaves as well as for locating mines of precious stones and metals
  • banderillas — Plural form of banderilla.
  • bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
  • bandleaders — Plural form of bandleader.
  • bandmasters — Plural form of bandmaster.
  • barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
  • barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
  • batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
  • beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
  • bear a hand — to give assistance
  • bear garden — (formerly) a place where bears were exhibited and where bear-baiting took place
  • beardedness — the quality of having a beard, the quality of being bearded
  • beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
  • bearer bond — a bond payable to the person in possession
  • bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
  • been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
  • beer garden — a garden attached to a pub, where people can sit and drink beer
  • behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
  • belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
  • benderboard — pliable, lightweight board used for making concrete patios, in gardens, and as woven fencing: often 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) wide and 1/4 to 1/2 inch (0.6 to 1.2 cm) thick and made from California redwood.
  • bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
  • 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.
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • birdbrained — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
  • blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
  • bladdernose — hooded seal
  • 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.
  • blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
  • bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
  • bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • 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.
  • brown bread — bread made with wholemeal flour, or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendarist — a person who calendarizes
  • calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
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