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11-letter words containing n, d

  • blessedness — consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified: the Blessed Sacrament.
  • blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
  • blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
  • blind tiger — speak-easy
  • 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.
  • blind-sided — Sports. to tackle, hit, or attack (an opponent) from the blind side: The quarterback was blindsided and had the ball knocked out of his hand.
  • blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
  • blindfolded — wearing a blindfold
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • blizzarding — Meteorology. a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area.
  • bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
  • blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
  • blood count — Your blood count is the number of red and white cells in your blood. A blood count can also refer to a medical examination which determines the number of red and white cells in your blood.
  • blood donor — A blood donor is someone who gives some of their blood so that it can be used in operations.
  • blood money — If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation.
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
  • blue-jeaned — wearing blue jeans.
  • 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
  • blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
  • bobsledding — a sled having two pairs of runners, a brake, and a steering wheel or other mechanism that enables the front rider to direct the sled down a steeply banked run or chute.
  • bodgo gegen — a former Buddhist leader of the Mongols.
  • body lotion — skin lotion for use on the body
  • bogged down — If you get bogged down in something, it prevents you from making progress or getting something done.
  • bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
  • bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
  • bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • bonderizing — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
  • bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • book-ending — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
  • bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
  • bookbinding — Bookbinding is the work of fastening books together and putting covers on them.
  • boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
  • border line — boundary line; frontier.
  • boss around — order about
  • bottom land — bottom (def 4).
  • boudin noir — a dark-colored boiled sausage made with pork and blood, and often highly spiced
  • boumedienne — Houari (ˈhaʊərɪ). 1927–78, Algerian statesman and soldier: president of Algeria (1965–78) after overthrowing Ben Bella in a coup
  • bound up in — If something is bound up in a particular form or place, it is fixed in that form or contained in that place.
  • boundedness — the quality of being bounded
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
  • brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
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