11-letter words containing p, b, d
- brown pound — the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- build up to — If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually.
- bumpsadaisy — an exclamation said to a child who has fallen down
- 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.
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- coupon bond — a bond, usually a bearer bond, that pays interest by means of coupons with specific cash values.
- crab spider — any of a family (Thomisidae) of spiders that move sideways like crabs
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
- demob-happy — feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces
- dependables — Plural form of dependable.
- depreciable — able to be depreciated for tax deduction
- depressible — that can be depressed
- developable — Able to be developed, in particular.
- discerpible — Capable of being discerped.
- dispellable — to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
- dispensable — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
- dispensably — in a dispensable manner
- dispensible — dispensable.
- dispersible — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- displayable — Capable of being displayed.
- disposables — Plural form of disposable.
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- do sb proud — If someone does you proud, they treat you very well, for example by welcoming you and giving you good food and entertainment.
- do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
- double jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
- double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
- double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- double whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- drapability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
- drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- expandables — Plural form of expandable.
- expendables — Plural form of expendable.
- hybrid chip — an integrated circuit that comprises both diffused active devices and thin-film components.
- hydrophobia — rabies.
- hydrophobic — of or relating to hydrophobia.
- hyperboloid — a quadric surface having a finite center and some of its plane sections hyperbolas. Equation: x 2 / a 2 + y 2 / b 2 − z 2 / c 2 = 1.
- inadaptable — lacking the ability to adapt
- judeophobia — Alternative case form of Judeophobia.
- lapel badge — pin or button worn on the collar
- mumbledypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- paddle ball — a game similar to handball, but played with a short-handled, perforated paddle