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11-letter words containing i, n, b, d

  • reinscribed — to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
  • ribbed-knit — rib-knit (def 2).
  • riding boot — a knee-high boot of black or brown leather, without fastenings, forming part of a riding habit.
  • ring binder — a loose-leaf binder in which the sheets are held in by two or more rings that can be made to snap open.
  • robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
  • roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
  • round-robin — a sequence or series.
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • sandbagging — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • self-binder — binder (def 5b).
  • single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
  • ski binding — an device on a ski used to attach it to a ski boot
  • skidbladnir — the huge collapsible ship, made by two dwarfs for Frey, that always had a favoring wind.
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
  • soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
  • spellbinder — a person or thing that spellbinds, especially a powerful speaker who can captivate an audience.
  • springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
  • stone-blind — completely blind.
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • string band — a band consisting of stringed instruments
  • stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
  • sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
  • subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
  • subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
  • subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
  • subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
  • subdivision — the act or fact of subdividing.
  • subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
  • subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
  • subindustry — a subdivision of an industry
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • suspendible — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • tanning bed — a boxlike bed having a hinged cover and equipped with sunlamps to produce a suntan.
  • tenebrionid — darkling beetle.
  • thumb index — tabs on edge of a book's pages
  • thumb-index — to provide (a book) with a thumb index.
  • thunderbird — (in the mythology of some North American Indians) a huge, eaglelike bird capable of producing thunder, lightning, and rain.
  • tidal basin — an artificial body of water open to a river, stream, etc., subject to tidal action.
  • triple bond — a chemical linkage consisting of three covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by three lines or six dots, as CH≡CH or CH⋮⋮CH.
  • twin-bedded — A twin-bedded room has two single beds.
  • unabolished — not abolished or revoked
  • unadvisably — in an unadvisable manner
  • unavoidable — unable to be avoided; inevitable: an unavoidable delay.
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