11-letter words containing r, d
- bubble card — blister pack.
- buffer fund — money put aside to help alleviate the adverse short-term effects of something
- bull header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
- bull riding — a rodeo event in which a contestant tries to ride a bucking bull for eight seconds, with one hand holding a rope tied to a band around the bull's chest.
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- 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.
- butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
- butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
- butterbread — bread spread with butter.
- butterfield — William. 1814–1900, British architect of the Gothic Revival; his buildings include Keble College, Oxford (1870) and All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1849–59)
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
- by order of — according to the command of
- c-odescript — (language) A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
- cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
- cadastrally — from a cadastral point of view
- caddie cart — a small two-wheeled cart used by golfers to carry their clubs.
- caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
- cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
- cadmium red — a pigment used in painting, consisting of the sulfide and the selinide of cadmium, characterized by its strong red or reddish color, excellent film-forming properties, and slow drying rate.
- cadwallader — a male given name.
- caird coast — a region of Antarctica: a part of Coats Land on the SE coast of the Weddell Sea; now included in the British Antarctic Territory (claim suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959)
- calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendarist — a person who calendarizes
- calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
- calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
- camaraderie — Camaraderie is a feeling of trust and friendship among a group of people who have usually known each other for a long time or gone through some kind of experience together.
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
- camphorweed — vinegarweed.
- camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
- canary seed — birdseed.
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
- cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
- cantharidic — cantharidal
- cantharidin — the compound C10H12O4, which is the active ingredient in cantharides and is secreted by many species of blister beetle
- caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
- cape doctor — a strong fresh SE wind blowing in the vicinity of Cape Town, esp in the summer
- capernoited — capricious