11-letter words containing d, r
- audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- audit trail — a record of all the transactions or data entries that a person or firm has carried out over a specific period
- auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
- auditorship — the position or function of auditor
- auriculated — (biology, rare) Having ears or appendages like ears; eared.
- auto-dialer — a telephone device that makes possible a service feature (au·to-dial) whereby a call is automatically made in response to a brief input signal from the user, as the pressing of a button.
- autodialers — Plural form of autodialer.
- autodialler — Alternative spelling of autodialer.
- autographed — Simple past tense and past participle of autograph.
- autorotated — Simple past tense and past participle of autorotate.
- autostradas — Plural form of autostrada.
- autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
- avant-garde — Avant-garde art, music, theatre, and literature is very modern and experimental.
- avoirdupois — a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton
- awkward age — early adolescence.
- awkwardness — lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
- azido group — the univalent group N 3 −, derived from hydrazoic acid.
- baby-minder — a person who is paid to look after other people's babies or very young children
- bachelordom — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- back garden — a garden at the rear of a house
- backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
- backdraught — a reverse movement of air, gas, or liquid
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
- backtracked — Simple past tense and past participle of backtrack.
- bactericide — a substance able to destroy bacteria
- bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
- bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
- badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
- badger game — the blackmailing of a man by maneuvering him into a compromising situation with a woman
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- ballhandler — a player particularly skilled at passing and dribbling
- balustraded — Having balustrades.
- balustrades — Plural form of balustrade.
- 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.
- barbed tape — wire with razor-sharp edges or projections, placed in coils as a barrier along the tops of fences or walls, as at a prison.
- barbed wire — Barbed wire is strong wire with sharp points sticking out of it, and is used to make fences.
- barbie doll — a teenage doll with numerous sets of clothes and accessories
- barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
- bargeboards — Plural form of bargeboard.
- barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
- barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
- barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.