10-letter words containing a, d, o
- band razor — a safety razor with a replaceable head whose cutting edge is a narrow band of steel that can be wound forward, exposing a new, sharp section.
- banderoles — Plural form of banderole.
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bandoleers — Plural form of bandoleer.
- bandoleros — Plural form of bandolero.
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- bandoneons — Plural form of bandoneon.
- bandwaggon — Alt form bandwagon.
- bandwagons — Plural form of bandwagon.
- bankrolled — money in one's possession; monetary resources.
- bardacious — bodacious.
- bardolater — someone who practises bardolatry
- bardolator — (usually, pejorative) One who loves or worships the works of William Shakespeare.
- bardolatry — idolatry or excessive admiration of William Shakespeare
- barefooted — Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
- bargeboard — a board, often decorated with carved ornaments, placed along the gable end of a roof
- barnardo's — a charity, founded by Thomas John Barnardo, that supports vulnerable children and young people
- barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
- basal body — a cylindrical organelle, within the cytoplasm of flagellated and ciliated cells, that contains microtubules and forms the base of a flagellum or cilium: identical in internal structure to a centriole.
- baseboards — Plural form of baseboard.
- basutoland — Lesotho
- bat around — to discuss (an idea, proposition, etc) informally
- batch mode — computer processing in which commands are input from a batch file, not interactively
- battledore — an ancient racket game
- baudouin i — 1930–93, king of Belgium (1951–93)
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- bay window — A bay window is a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house.
- bayonetted — (British) Simple past tense and past participle of bayonet.
- be hard on — to treat severely; be harsh toward
- beadswoman — a female inhabitant of a beadhouse
- beard moss — any of several green or yellow lichens of the genus Usnea, having long, threadlike stems in a tangled mass typically hanging from tree branches, and growing in a wide range of habitats from tropical zones to the Arctic.
- beard worm — pogonophoran.
- beau monde — the world of fashion and society
- bedeswoman — beadswoman
- beforehand — If you do something beforehand, you do it earlier than a particular event.
- beg-pardon — an expression of apology (used especially in the phrase with no beg-pardons).
- belladonna — either of two alkaloid drugs, atropine or hyoscyamine, obtained from the leaves and roots of the deadly nightshade
- bellyboard — a small surfboard, usually 3–4 feet (0.9–1.2 meters) long, for riding waves on one's belly, sometimes used in conjunction with swim fins.
- bernadotte — Folke (ˈfɔlke), Count. 1895–1948, Swedish diplomat, noted for his work with the Red Cross during World War II and as United Nations mediator in Palestine (1948). He was assassinated by Jewish terrorists
- bimodality — the state of being bimodal
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- biodegrade — to decompose (something)
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black body — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- black code — any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
- black gold — petroleum
- black mold — any fungus of the family Mucoraceae, especially Rhizopus nigricans, that forms a black, furry coating on foodstuffs.
- blackboard — A blackboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Blackboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.