11-letter words containing s, d, a
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- bird's beak — beak (def 9).
- black goods — electronic goods which are housed in black or dark casings, such as televisions, CD players, etc
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
- blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- boss around — order about
- bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
- brandy snap — Brandy snaps are very thin crisp biscuits in the shape of hollow cylinders. They are flavoured with ginger and are often filled with cream.
- brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
- bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
- breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
- breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1. (web) Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2. (programming) Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- breadthways — from side to side
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- broad glass — cylinder glass.
- broad-based — comprehensive and inclusive
- broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
- broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
- broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
- brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- bumpsadaisy — an exclamation said to a child who has fallen down
- bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- bush ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- cadastrally — from a cadastral point of view