10-letter words containing a, b, o, d
- hard labor — compulsory labor imposed upon criminals in addition to imprisonment, generally not exceeding ordinary labor in severity or amount.
- hard-bound — hardcover
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- headboards — Plural form of headboard.
- hebdomadal — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- hebdomadar — (in Scottish universities and grammar schools) a name given to the member of staff whose weekly turn it is to supervise the behaviour of students
- high board — a diving board three meters above the water.
- hog badger — a SE Asian badger, Arctonyx collaris, with a piglike mobile snout
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- home brand — an item packaged and marketed under the brand name of a particular retailer, usually a large supermarket chain, rather than that of the manufacturer
- home-baked — baked at home; home-made
- hoverboard — (science fiction) A levitating board that can be ridden in the manner of a surfboard or skateboard.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- idioblasts — Plural form of idioblast.
- imageboard — A type of Internet forum that revolves around the posting of images with minimal associated text.
- jaborandis — Plural form of jaborandi.
- jackbooted — wearing jackboots.
- jute board — a strong, bendable cardboard made from rags and sulfite, used chiefly in the manufacture of shipping cartons.
- keyboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of keyboard.
- keyboarder — One who keyboards; a typist.
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
- labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.
- lambdoidal — Lambdoid.
- laminboard — A compound wood board consisting of thin strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of higher quality than blockboard.
- lay aboard — (formerly) to move alongside a warship to board it
- lead block — any block that alters the direction of a rope; fairlead.
- lear board — (on a sloping roof) a board laid next to the gutter to receive the turned-up edge of the metal lining.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- linerboard — a type of paperboard used especially for containers, as corrugated boxes.
- loaf bread — commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.
- loan-blend — a compound word or expression consisting of both native and foreign elements.
- longbeards — Plural form of longbeard.
- love beads — a necklace of small, often handmade beads, worn as a symbol of peace and goodwill, especially in the 1960s.
- mandelbrot — designating or of any of various sets of points used in the study of chaos to generate fractals
- marblewood — any of several trees having wood somewhat resembling marble in graining or texture, as Diospyros marmorata, of southern Asia, or Olea paniculata, of Australia.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- microblade — bladelet.
- mob-handed — in or with a large group of people
- modifiable — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- moldboards — Plural form of moldboard.
- molybdates — Plural form of molybdate.
- mood board — a board used by designers on which samples of various colours and textures are mounted to help in deciding which elements complement each other
- morbidezza — the effect of extreme softness and delicacy in pictorial and sculptural representations.
- mossbacked — Very conservative or reactionary, with old-fashioned views.
- mothballed — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.