11-letter words containing o, d, u, r
- body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
- body colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
- bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
- boss around — order about
- boudin noir — a dark-colored boiled sausage made with pork and blood, and often highly spiced
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam
- bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- bring round — to restore (a person) to consciousness, esp after a faint
- broad gauge — a railway track with a greater distance between the lines than the standard gauge of 561⁄2 inches (about 1.44 metres) used now by most mainline railway systems
- broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
- broad-gauge — Railroads. of or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge: broad-gauge rolling stock.
- 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.
- brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
- brown pound — the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
- brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
- bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
- cardophagus — a donkey
- carduaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Carduaceae, a subfamily of composite plants that includes the thistle
- cassiodorus — Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ˈfleɪvɪəs ˈmæɡnəs ɔːˈriːlɪəs). ?490–?585 ad, Roman statesman, writer, and monk; author of Variae, a collection of official documents written for the Ostrogoths
- catadromous — (of fishes such as the eel) migrating down rivers to the sea in order to breed
- changeround — the process of changing position
- chaud-froid — a cooked dish of fowl or game, served cold with aspic, jelly, or a sauce.
- church mode — a mode belonging to a codified system of modes in use in Gregorian chant and in other music to c1600.
- clear round — an instance of a horse and rider clearing all barriers without making any mistakes
- close round — to encircle; surround
- closed rule — a rule that prohibits amendments to a bill from the floor.
- clostridium — any anaerobic typically rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Clostridium, occurring mainly in soil, but also in the intestines of humans and animals: family Bacillaceae. The genus includes the species causing botulism and tetanus
- cloud cover — the state of the sky when it is covered with cloud
- cloud grass — a grass, Agrostis nebulosa, of Spain, having clusters of tiny spikelets on slender stalks, used in bouquets.
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- co-producer — to produce (a motion picture, play, etc.) in collaboration with others.
- coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.
- coast guard — The coast guard is a part of a country's military forces and is responsible for protecting the coast, carrying out rescues, and doing police work along the coast.
- code number — a number used to identify something
- cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
- cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
- cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
- color guard — the persons carrying and escorting the colors (flag) in a parade, ceremony, etc.
- colour code — a system of easily distinguishable colours, as for the identification of electrical wires or resistors
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
- colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
- come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- computerdom — the computer industry
- conductress — a female conductor