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11-letter words containing d, r

  • blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
  • bleary-eyed — with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
  • bleed screw — A bleed screw is a type of tap or valve that helps to drain a hydraulic system, such as a brake system.
  • bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
  • blind tiger — speak-easy
  • blind trust — A blind trust is a financial arrangement in which someone's investments are managed without the person knowing where the money is invested. Blind trusts are used especially by people such as members of parliament, so that they cannot be accused of using their position to make money unfairly.
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • blizzarding — Meteorology. a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area.
  • block chord — a two-handed chord played usually in the middle range of the piano with the left hand duplicating or complementing the right-hand notes.
  • block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
  • blood donor — A blood donor is someone who gives some of their blood so that it can be used in operations.
  • blood group — Someone's blood group is the type of blood that they have in their body. There are four main types: A, B, AB, and O.
  • blood purge — the mass execution, especially by a government, of persons considered guilty of treason or sedition.
  • blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
  • blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
  • blood sport — Blood sports are sports such as hunting in which animals are killed.
  • blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
  • bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
  • bloodletter — someone or something which lets blood
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
  • blubberhead — a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
  • blue murder — If you say that someone screams blue murder or screams bloody murder, you are emphasizing that they are making a lot of noise or fuss about something that they do not like.
  • 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.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  • blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
  • board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
  • bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
  • body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • body colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
  • body horror — a horror film genre in which the main feature is the graphically depicted destruction or degeneration of a human body or bodies
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body rhythm — biorhythm.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
  • body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
  • boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
  • bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
  • bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
  • bonderizing — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
  • boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
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