11-letter words containing d, r, o, b, n
- 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
- brown dwarf — a type of celestial body midway in mass between a large planet and a small star
- brown goods — Brown goods are electrical appliances such as televisions and audio equipment. Compare white goods.
- brown pound — the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
- brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
- 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
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- code number — a number used to identify something
- color-blind — Someone who is color-blind cannot see the difference between colors, especially between red and green.
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- contrabands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contraband.
- 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
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
- 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)
- 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
- diamond bar — a city in SW California.
- do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
- 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
- donnybrooks — Plural form of donnybrook.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doxorubicin — a cytotoxic antibiotic, C 27 H 29 NO 11 , derived from a variety of the bacterium Streptomyces peucetius and used in the treatment of sarcoma, malignant lymphoma, acute leukemia, and other cancers.
- 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.
- drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- embryonated — Containing an embryo.
- exboyfriend — Alternative form of ex-boyfriend.
- 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.