11-letter words containing d, u, r, a
- arse around — If you say that someone is arsing around or arsing about, you mean that they are behaving in a silly, irritating way instead of getting something done.
- art student — a person studying art
- articulated — An articulated vehicle, especially a lorry, is made in two or more sections which are joined together by metal bars, so that the vehicle can turn more easily.
- aru islands — a group of islands in Indonesia, in the SW Moluccas. Area: about 8500 sq km (3300 sq miles)
- assuredness — guaranteed; sure; certain; secure: an assured income.
- audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
- 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.
- 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
- azido group — the univalent group N 3 −, derived from hydrazoic acid.
- backdraught — a reverse movement of air, gas, or liquid
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
- balustraded — Having balustrades.
- balustrades — Plural form of balustrade.
- barracudina — any of several slender, large-mouthed, pelagic fishes of the family Paralepididae.
- barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
- bastard cut — (of a file) having medium teeth; intermediate between a coarse cut and a fine cut
- baudrillard — Jean. 1929–2007, French sociologist and theorist of postmodernism; his books include Seduction (1979), America (1986), and The Spirit of Terrorism (2002)
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- beau dollar — a silver dollar.
- been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
- beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
- bermuda bag — an oval-shaped handbag with wooden handles and changeable decorative cloth covers.
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- biquadratic — of or relating to the fourth power
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
- blubberhead — a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
- 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.
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- 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.
- boss around — order about
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
- 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)
- bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
- breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1. (web) Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2. (programming) Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.