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11-letter words containing b, i, d

  • biquadratic — of or relating to the fourth power
  • bird cherry — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus padus, with clusters of white flowers and small black fruits
  • bird feeder — A bird feeder is an object that you fill with seeds or nuts and hang up outside in order attract birds.
  • bird pepper — a tropical solanaceous plant, Capsicum frutescens, thought to be the ancestor of the sweet pepper and many hot peppers
  • bird spider — any large hairy predatory bird-eating spider of the family Aviculariidae, of tropical America
  • bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
  • bird's beak — beak (def 9).
  • bird's nest — the nest of a bird
  • bird's-foot — a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus, with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
  • bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
  • birdbrained — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
  • birddogging — the act of pursuing with determination
  • birds' eggs — the eggs of birds
  • birobidzhan — a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
  • bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
  • bitterender — a person who persists until the bitter end without compromising or yielding; diehard.
  • black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
  • black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
  • blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
  • bladderlike — resembling a bladder
  • bleed white — to deprive slowly of resources
  • bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
  • blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
  • blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
  • blind tiger — speak-easy
  • blind trust — A blind trust is a financial arrangement in which someone's investments are managed without the person knowing where the money is invested. Blind trusts are used especially by people such as members of parliament, so that they cannot be accused of using their position to make money unfairly.
  • blind-sided — Sports. to tackle, hit, or attack (an opponent) from the blind side: The quarterback was blindsided and had the ball knocked out of his hand.
  • blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
  • blindfolded — wearing a blindfold
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • blizzarding — Meteorology. a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area.
  • blood guilt — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • blood libel — the malicious accusation that Jews used the blood of non-Jews in religious rituals
  • bloodguilty — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • bloodmobile — a motor vehicle equipped for collecting blood from donors
  • bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • blue devils — a fit of depression or melancholy
  • blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
  • blue shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
  • bobsledding — a sled having two pairs of runners, a brake, and a steering wheel or other mechanism that enables the front rider to direct the sled down a steeply banked run or chute.
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
  • bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
  • body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
  • body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
  • body lotion — skin lotion for use on the body
  • body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
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