10-letter words containing n, d
- brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
- brass band — A brass band is a band that is made up of brass and percussion instruments.
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- break wind — to emit wind from the anus
- breakdance — to perform break dancing.
- brian reid — (person) The person who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with John Gilmore.
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- brigandage — plundering by brigands
- brigandine — a coat of mail, invented in the Middle Ages to increase mobility, consisting of metal rings or sheets sewn on to cloth or leather
- brigandish — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- bring down — When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.
- broad bean — Broad beans are flat round beans that are light green in colour and are eaten as a vegetable.
- broadlands — a Palladian mansion near Romsey in Hampshire: formerly the home of Lord Palmerston and Lord Mountbatten
- broodiness — moody; gloomy.
- broodingly — preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
- brown deer — a town in SE Wisconsin.
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- brundisium — Brindisi
- brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- bug-ridden — full of insects
- build down — a process for reducing armaments, especially the number of nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., by eliminating several older weapons for each new one that is deployed.
- build into — to make (something) a definite part of (a contract, agreement, etc)
- build-down — a gradual decrease in nuclear weapons, armed forces, etc., esp. by an agreement in which a smaller number of newer weapons would replace older ones
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- bull-nosed — having a rounded end
- bulletined — a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public.
- bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- bundeswehr — the armed forces of Germany.
- bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
- bunt order — a dominance hierarchy seen in herds of cattle, established and maintained by bunting.
- burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
- burned-out — consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use: a burned-out tube.
- butt-naked — completely naked
- buttondown — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
- buttonhold — to buttonhole a person
- buttonmold — a small disk of wood, metal, etc., which is covered as with cloth or leather to form a button
- buttonwood — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
- by dint of — If you achieve a result by dint of something, you achieve it by means of that thing.
- cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
- cable bend — a knot or clinch for attaching a cable to an anchor or mooring post.
- cackhanded — left-handed
- cacodaemon — Wicked or malevolent spirit as opposed to agathodemon (a good spirit).