12-letter words containing d, r
- brand leader — The brand leader of a particular product is the brand of it that most people choose to buy.
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
- bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
- bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
- breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- break ground — to do something that has not been done before
- break of day — dawn; daybreak.
- breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
- breaker card — the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.
- breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
- breckinridge — John Cabell1821-75; vice president of the U.S. (1857-61); Confederate general
- breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
- breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
- breed's hill — a hill in E Massachusetts, adjoining Bunker Hill: the true site of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
- brevicaudate — having a short tail.
- brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
- bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- bridge a gap — to remedy a deficiency
- bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
- bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- broad church — You can refer to an organization, group, or area of activity as a broad church when it includes a wide range of opinions, beliefs, or styles.
- broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
- broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
- broad-minded — If you describe someone as broad-minded, you approve of them because they are willing to accept types of behaviour which other people consider immoral.
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- broken chord — a chord played as an arpeggio
- broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
- bromhidrosis — the secretion of foul-smelling sweat.
- bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
- brush border — a layer of tightly packed minute finger-like protuberances on cells that line absorptive surfaces, such as those of the intestine and kidney
- bubble under — to remain just beneath a particular level
- buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
- buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
- bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
- bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
- burial mound — a barrow
- burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- butyric acid — type of acid
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- buzzards bay — arm of the Atlantic, on the SE coast of Mass., at the base of Cape Cod peninsula
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.