11-letter words containing n, a, r, b, d
- binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
- binary data — binary file
- birdbrained — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
- birobidzhan — a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- blizzarding — Meteorology. a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area.
- 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.
- bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
- bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- boss around — order about
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
- brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
- brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
- brain drain — When people talk about a brain drain, they are referring to the movement of a large number of scientists or academics away from their own country to other countries where the conditions and salaries are better.
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
- 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)
- brandy mint — peppermint.
- brandy snap — Brandy snaps are very thin crisp biscuits in the shape of hollow cylinders. They are flavoured with ginger and are often filled with cream.
- brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
- bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
- breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
- break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
- breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
- broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
- brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
- brown bread — bread made with wholemeal flour, or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
- brown dwarf — a type of celestial body midway in mass between a large planet and a small star
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- carbamidine — guanidine.
- carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
- carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
- centerboard — a movable board or metal plate that, when lowered through a slot in the floor of a shallow-draft sailboat, functions like a keel to reduce leeward drift or increase stability, esp. one that moves on a pivot
- centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
- chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- contrabands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contraband.
- crabbedness — The state or quality of being crabbed.