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11-letter words containing w, a, b, r

  • broad arrow — a mark shaped like a broad arrowhead designating British government property and formerly used on prison clothing
  • brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brown algae — any algae of the phylum Phaeophyta, such as the wracks and kelps, which contain a brown pigment in addition to chlorophyll
  • brown bread — bread made with wholemeal flour, or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
  • brown dwarf — a type of celestial body midway in mass between a large planet and a small star
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
  • brown paper — a coarse unbleached paper used for wrapping
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
  • brown toast — toasted wholemeal bread
  • brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
  • cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
  • drawability — the degree to which a metal can be drawn.
  • drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
  • 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.
  • fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
  • hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
  • handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
  • hash browns — fried potato cake
  • hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
  • jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
  • jaw-breaker — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
  • jawbreakers — Plural form of jawbreaker.
  • joel barlowJoel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
  • labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
  • late hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 through the 13th century, including Mishnaic Hebrew and Medieval Hebrew.
  • law-breaker — A law-breaker is someone who breaks the law.
  • lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
  • lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
  • long barrow — a funerary barrow having an elongate shape, sometimes constructed over a megalithic chamber tomb and usually containing one or more inhumed corpses along with artifacts: primarily Neolithic but extending into the Bronze Age.
  • march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
  • marrow bean — a plump-seeded strain of the common field bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), grown for its dry, edible seeds
  • marrow bone — Marrow bones are the bones of certain animals, especially cows, that contain a lot of bone marrow. They are used in cooking and in dog food.
  • marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
  • meadow bird — the bobolink.
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