11-letter words containing s, r, d
- bird spider — any large hairy predatory bird-eating spider of the family Aviculariidae, of tropical America
- bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
- bird's beak — beak (def 9).
- bird's nest — the nest of a bird
- bird's-foot — a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus, with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
- bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
- birds' eggs — the eggs of birds
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
- bleed screw — A bleed screw is a type of tap or valve that helps to drain a hydraulic system, such as a brake system.
- blind trust — A blind trust is a financial arrangement in which someone's investments are managed without the person knowing where the money is invested. Blind trusts are used especially by people such as members of parliament, so that they cannot be accused of using their position to make money unfairly.
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- blood sport — Blood sports are sports such as hunting in which animals are killed.
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
- blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- 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.
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- bored stiff — very bored
- boss around — order about
- 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
- bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
- bristlebird — any of various Australian warblers of the genus Dasyornis.
- 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.
- bromidrosis — the production of foul-smelling perspiration
- brown goods — Brown goods are electrical appliances such as televisions and audio equipment. Compare white goods.
- brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie