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10-letter words containing b, i, d

  • body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
  • body shirt — a close-fitting shirt or blouse having a shape and seams that follow the contours of the body.
  • bog orchid — an orchid, Hammarbya (or Malaxis) paludosa, growing in sphagnum bogs in the N hemisphere. It has greenish-yellow flowers and its leaves bear a fringe of tiny bulbils
  • bohemond i — ?1056–?1111, prince of Antioch (1099–1111); a leader of the first crusade, he helped to capture Antioch (1098)
  • boiled egg — an egg cooked in its shell in boiling water
  • boiled oil — any of several oils, esp. linseed, that are heated (not boiled) and mixed with driers to form a thick, dark, quick-drying oil
  • bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
  • boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
  • bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
  • bombardier — the member of a bomber aircrew responsible for aiming and releasing the bombs
  • bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
  • bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
  • bookbinder — A bookbinder is a person whose job is fastening books together and putting covers on them.
  • bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
  • borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
  • bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
  • boric acid — a white soluble weakly acid crystalline solid used in the manufacture of heat-resistant glass and porcelain enamels, as a fireproofing material, and as a mild antiseptic. Formula: H3BO3
  • bosun bird — tropic bird.
  • botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
  • bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
  • bow window — a bay window in the shape of a curve
  • bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
  • bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
  • box girder — a girder that is hollow and square or rectangular in shape
  • boxing day — Boxing Day is the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day.
  • brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
  • bradykinin — a peptide in blood plasma that dilates blood vessels and causes contraction of smooth muscles. Formula: C50H73N15O11
  • bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
  • bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
  • brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).
  • brain-dead — If someone is declared brain-dead, they have suffered brain death.
  • brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
  • brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
  • brand nazi — a person who insists on buying one particular brand of clothing or other commodity
  • brandering — furring (def 4b).
  • brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
  • brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
  • brazilwood — a hard, reddish wood obtained from several tropical American trees (genera Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon) of the caesalpinia family: it yields a red or blue dye and is also used in making cabinets and violin bows
  • bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
  • breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
  • breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
  • brian reid — (person)   The person who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with John Gilmore.
  • brickfield — an area of ground where bricks are made
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