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11-letter words containing n, e, r, d

  • backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
  • ballhandler — a player particularly skilled at passing and dribbling
  • band leader — the leader of a group of musicians, esp those playing popular music
  • band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
  • bandeirante — a 16th–18th-century Portugese explorer in South America motivated by profit, known for hunting down natives for slaves as well as for locating mines of precious stones and metals
  • banderillas — Plural form of banderilla.
  • bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
  • bandleaders — Plural form of bandleader.
  • bandmasters — Plural form of bandmaster.
  • barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
  • barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
  • batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
  • be dirty on — to be offended by or be hostile towards
  • be revenged — to get revenge
  • beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
  • bear a hand — to give assistance
  • bear garden — (formerly) a place where bears were exhibited and where bear-baiting took place
  • beardedness — the quality of having a beard, the quality of being bearded
  • beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
  • bearer bond — a bond payable to the person in possession
  • bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
  • been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
  • beer garden — a garden attached to a pub, where people can sit and drink beer
  • behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
  • bellfounder — a foundry worker who casts bells
  • belowground — underground
  • belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
  • bend dexter — the ordinary bend, extending from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
  • benderboard — pliable, lightweight board used for making concrete patios, in gardens, and as woven fencing: often 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) wide and 1/4 to 1/2 inch (0.6 to 1.2 cm) thick and made from California redwood.
  • bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
  • benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
  • bergenfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
  • bertrandite — a mineral, hydrous beryllium silicate, Be 4 Si 2 O 7 (OH) 2 , colorless or pale yellow, with a vitreous luster, occurring as tabular or prismatic crystals in pegmatites and hydrothermal veins.
  • best friend — a dearest friend
  • bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • bird's nest — the nest of a bird
  • bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
  • birdbrained — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
  • bitterender — a person who persists until the bitter end without compromising or yielding; diehard.
  • blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
  • bladdernose — hooded seal
  • blind tiger — speak-easy
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • 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.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  • blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
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