11-letter words containing nd
- boss around — order about
- bottom land — bottom (def 4).
- 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
- brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
- brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
- brandenburg — a state in NE Germany, part of East Germany until 1990. A former electorate, it expanded under the Hohenzollerns to become the kingdom of Prussia (1701). The district east of the Oder River became Polish in 1945. Capital: Potsdam. Pop: 2 575 000 (2003 est). Area: 29 481 sq km (11 219 sq miles)
- brandy mint — peppermint.
- 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.
- bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
- bring round — to restore (a person) to consciousness, esp after a faint
- broederbond — (in South Africa) a secret society of Afrikaner Nationalists committed to securing and maintaining Afrikaner control over important areas of government
- broken wind — heaves
- brown pound — the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
- buffer fund — money put aside to help alleviate the adverse short-term effects of something
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
- cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
- calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
- 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.
- can't stand — find intolerable
- canandaigua — a town in central New York.
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candescence — glowing; incandescent.
- candidacies — Plural form of candidacy.
- candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
- candidiases — Plural form of candidiasis.
- candidiasis — a common fungal infection caused by yeast (genus Candida, esp. C. albicans) that thrives on any moist, cutaneous area of the body, esp. on mucous membranes, between toes, under diapers, etc.: can develop into serious internal and chronic conditions
- candle-foot — foot-candle
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- candleflame — Flame of a candle.
- candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
- 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
- candlestand — a slender stand or table, often with a tripod base, for holding a candlestick or candelabrum.
- candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
- candy floss — cotton candy.
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- candy-assed — timid or cowardly; sissified.
- canyon wind — a nocturnal, down-canyon flow of air caused by the cooling of the canyon walls. Compare valley wind.