11-letter words containing r, a, b, i, d
- drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
- drivability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- 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.
- edible crab — a species of crab, Cancer pagurus, found in the Mediterranean Sea, the North Sea, and the North Atlantic
- fairy bread — slices of white bread covered with small beads of brightly coloured sugar, served as a children’s snack
- fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-bodied — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- hereditable — heritable.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hydrophobia — rabies.
- id bracelet — a bracelet, usually of metal links, having an identification plate for the name of the wearer.
- ida tarbell — Ida Minerva, 1857–1944, U.S. author.
- idiot board — a mechanical apparatus, as a projector or a continuous roll of paper, for prompting a performer during a program.
- inturbidate — to make turbid
- irradicable — ineradicable.
- irradicably — ineradicably
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- kiteboarder — A person who participates in kiteboarding.
- kodiak bear — a large, brown bear, Ursus (arctos) middendorffi, inhabiting coastal areas of Alaska and British Columbia, that grows to a length of 9 feet (2.7 meters).
- labradorite — a feldspar mineral of the plagioclase group, often characterized by a brilliant change of colors, with blue and green most common.
- lamebrained — a dunce; booby; fool.
- land bridge — Geology. an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals: a prehistoric land bridge between Asia and North America.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
- liberalised — Simple past tense and past participle of liberalise.