11-letter words containing o, n, b, e, d
- bogged down — If you get bogged down in something, it prevents you from making progress or getting something done.
- bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
- bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
- bonderizing — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
- bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- book-ending — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
- bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
- boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
- border line — boundary line; frontier.
- boumedienne — Houari (ˈhaʊərɪ). 1927–78, Algerian statesman and soldier: president of Algeria (1965–78) after overthrowing Ben Bella in a coup
- boundedness — the quality of being bounded
- 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.
- 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.
- broederbond — (in South Africa) a secret society of Afrikaner Nationalists committed to securing and maintaining Afrikaner control over important areas of government
- broken reed — a weak, unreliable, or ineffectual person
- broken wind — heaves
- broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
- bronze dore — ormolu (def 2).
- brown bread — bread made with wholemeal flour, or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
- browned off — If you say that you are browned off, you mean that you are annoyed and depressed.
- browned-off — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
- bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- 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.
- butenedioic — designating a type of acid
- buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
- buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
- cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
- 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.
- 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
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- code number — a number used to identify something
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- commandable — able to be commanded
- commendable — If you describe someone's behaviour as commendable, you approve of it or are praising it.
- commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
- concludable — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- condemnable — to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicate strong disapproval of; censure.
- condensable — capable of being condensed.
- condensible — capable of being condensed.
- conductible — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- conglobated — in the form of a globe or ball
- contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
- corned beef — Corned beef is beef which has been cooked and preserved in salt water.
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.