11-letter words containing r, e, b, d
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- dumb barter — a form of barter practiced among some peoples, in which the goods for exchange are left at and taken from a preselected spot without the exchanging parties ever coming face-to-face.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- durableness — Durability.
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- edible crab — a species of crab, Cancer pagurus, found in the Mediterranean Sea, the North Sea, and the North Atlantic
- embarcadero — (rare) A quay; a wharf.
- embarrassed — Feeling or showing embarrassment.
- embroidered — Decorate (cloth) by sewing patterns on it with thread.
- embroiderer — A person who embroiders.
- embryonated — Containing an embryo.
- emery board — abrasive tool for shaping fingernails
- energy band — a range of energies associated with the quantum states of electrons in a crystalline solid. In a semiconductor or an insulator there is a valence band containing many states, most of which are occupied. Above this is a forbidden band with only a few isolated states caused by impurities. Above this is a conduction band containing many states most of which are empty. In a metal there is a continuous valence-conduction band
- erodibility — the ability to erode
- exacerbated — Make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
- exboyfriend — Alternative form of ex-boyfriend.
- fairy bread — slices of white bread covered with small beads of brightly coloured sugar, served as a children’s snack
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- gallbladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
- garage band — a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group
- gas bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- gas-bladder — a vesicle or sac containing air.
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gold bronze — an alloy of about 90 percent copper, 5 percent zinc, 3 percent lead, and 2 percent tin.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
- goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
- gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
- grab handle — A grab handle is a handle on the side of an object such as a bathtub that you hold in order to help you get in and out.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding