11-letter words containing r, i, d
- audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- audit trail — a record of all the transactions or data entries that a person or firm has carried out over a specific period
- auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
- auditorship — the position or function of auditor
- auriculated — (biology, rare) Having ears or appendages like ears; eared.
- 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.
- 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.
- baby-minder — a person who is paid to look after other people's babies or very young children
- bactericide — a substance able to destroy bacteria
- 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.
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- bandeirante — a 16th–18th-century Portugese explorer in South America motivated by profit, known for hunting down natives for slaves as well as for locating mines of precious stones and metals
- banderillas — Plural form of banderilla.
- bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
- barbed wire — Barbed wire is strong wire with sharp points sticking out of it, and is used to make fences.
- barbie doll — a teenage doll with numerous sets of clothes and accessories
- barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
- barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
- barracudina — any of several slender, large-mouthed, pelagic fishes of the family Paralepididae.
- barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
- barricading — Present participle of barricade.
- basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
- 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
- basic dress — a simple, usually dark dress that may be worn with various accessories or in combination with other garments so that it is suitable for different occasions.
- basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
- bastardised — Simple past tense and past participle of bastardise.
- bastardized — If you refer to something as a bastardized form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality.
- bastardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize.
- baudrillard — Jean. 1929–2007, French sociologist and theorist of postmodernism; his books include Seduction (1979), America (1986), and The Spirit of Terrorism (2002)
- be dirty on — to be offended by or be hostile towards
- be hard hit — To be hard hit by something means to be affected very severely by it.
- beach drift — the drifting of sediments, especially marine sediments, in patterns parallel to the contours of a beach, due to the action of waves and currents.
- beach ridge — a ridge just inland from a beach, consisting of sand and gravel built up by storm waves
- beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
- bearded tit — a small European bird, Panurus biarmicus, found in reedy places, the male of which has a tuft of black feathers on each side of the face.
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- bedside rug — a rug beside a bed
- behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
- beiderbecke — Leon Bismarcke, known as Bix. 1903–31, US jazz cornettist, composer, and pianist
- belted tire — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- bergenfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- bertrandite — a mineral, hydrous beryllium silicate, Be 4 Si 2 O 7 (OH) 2 , colorless or pale yellow, with a vitreous luster, occurring as tabular or prismatic crystals in pegmatites and hydrothermal veins.
- best friend — a dearest friend
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden