11-letter words containing o, r, d
- armour-clad — wearing armour
- aron kodesh — Holy Ark.
- arrowheaded — Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform; cuneatic.
- arse around — If you say that someone is arsing around or arsing about, you mean that they are behaving in a silly, irritating way instead of getting something done.
- arthrodesis — the fusion of bones in a joint through surgery which causes immobility of the joint
- arthropodan — relating to arthropods
- artiodactyl — any placental mammal of the order Artiodactyla, having hooves with an even number of toes; an even-toed ungulate. The order includes pigs, hippopotamuses, camels, deer, cattle, and antelopes
- arytenoidal — relating to the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx and also to other parts relating to them
- asteroidean — an echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, comprising the starfishes.
- astral body — Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
- atmosphered — having an intellectual or psychological climate or feeling
- attic order — a low pilaster of any order set into the cornice of a building
- attorneydom — the state or power of being an attorney
- audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
- audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
- auditorship — the position or function of auditor
- auto-dialer — a telephone device that makes possible a service feature (au·to-dial) whereby a call is automatically made in response to a brief input signal from the user, as the pressing of a button.
- autodialers — Plural form of autodialer.
- autodialler — Alternative spelling of autodialer.
- autographed — Simple past tense and past participle of autograph.
- autorotated — Simple past tense and past participle of autorotate.
- autostradas — Plural form of autostrada.
- autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
- avoirdupois — a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton
- azido group — the univalent group N 3 −, derived from hydrazoic acid.
- bachelordom — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
- bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
- badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
- band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
- barbie doll — a teenage doll with numerous sets of clothes and accessories
- bargeboards — Plural form of bargeboard.
- barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
- barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
- base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
- basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
- bastard pop — a type of popular music in which two records, usually from different genres or eras, are blended together into a whole, often using the vocal performance from one and the instrumental from the other
- bastard son — an illegitimate son
- batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
- battledores — Plural form of battledore.
- be dirty on — to be offended by or be hostile towards
- be good for — If someone is good for something, you can rely on them to provide that thing.
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- bearer bond — a bond payable to the person in possession
- beau dollar — a silver dollar.
- beaverboard — a stiff light board of compressed wood fibre, used esp to surface partitions
- bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require