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11-letter words containing n, a, d, r

  • brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
  • 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
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • buzz-aldrinEdwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
  • calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendarist — a person who calendarizes
  • calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
  • calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
  • campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
  • canary seed — birdseed.
  • candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
  • candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
  • candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
  • candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
  • candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
  • cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
  • cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
  • cantharidic — cantharidal
  • cantharidin — the compound C10H12O4, which is the active ingredient in cantharides and is secreted by many species of blister beetle
  • caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
  • capernoited — capricious
  • carbamidine — guanidine.
  • carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
  • carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
  • carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
  • cardinalate — the rank, office, or term of office of a cardinal
  • cardinality — the property of possessing a cardinal number
  • cardiodynia — pain in the heart region.
  • cardiogenic — originating in the heart, or resulting from a disorder of the heart
  • cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
  • cardiotonic — having a positive effect on cardiac function
  • carloadings — the number of railroad carloads shipped in or out within a given period
  • carnationed — having the colour of flesh
  • carotenoids — Plural form of carotenoid.
  • casa grande — the massive, prehistoric structure within Indian ruins in S Ariz., now constituting a national monument
  • case-harden — to form a hard surface layer of high carbon content on (a steel component) by heating in a carburizing environment with subsequent quenching or heat treatment
  • casehardens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caseharden.
  • casting rod — a fishing rod, generally 4–8 feet (1.2–2.4 meters) long, for casting bait or lures with a reel mounted near the handle that enables the thumb or finger to control the line during a cast, including rods used for bait casting and spinning.
  • centerboard — a movable board or metal plate that, when lowered through a slot in the floor of a shallow-draft sailboat, functions like a keel to reduce leeward drift or increase stability, esp. one that moves on a pivot
  • centralised — to draw to or gather about a center.
  • centralized — to draw to or gather about a center.
  • centrarchid — (zoology) Any member of the Centrarchidae.
  • centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
  • chain drive — a chain of links passing over sprockets that transmits rotation from one shaft to another
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