11-letter words containing n, a, r, b, d
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- dacarbazine — a toxic, light-sensitive powder, C 6 H 10 N 6 O, used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and metastatic malignant melanoma.
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- dangleberry — a blue huckleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa), native to E North America
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
- decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
- defibrinate — to divest of fibrin or the protein formed in blood during clotting
- delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- diamond bar — a city in SW California.
- diefenbaker — John George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
- discernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discernably — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
- dragon beam — dragging piece.
- dragon book — (publication) The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
- drainboards — Plural form of drainboard.
- drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
- drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- durableness — Durability.
- embryonated — Containing an embryo.
- energy band — a range of energies associated with the quantum states of electrons in a crystalline solid. In a semiconductor or an insulator there is a valence band containing many states, most of which are occupied. Above this is a forbidden band with only a few isolated states caused by impurities. Above this is a conduction band containing many states most of which are empty. In a metal there is a continuous valence-conduction band
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- garage band — a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- grab handle — A grab handle is a handle on the side of an object such as a bathtub that you hold in order to help you get in and out.
- grand banks — an extensive shoal SE of Newfoundland: fishing grounds. 350 miles (565 km) long; 40,000 sq. mi. (104,000 sq. km).
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.