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11-letter words containing b, o, a, d

  • bandywallop — an imaginary town, far from civilization
  • barbie doll — a teenage doll with numerous sets of clothes and accessories
  • bargeboards — Plural form of bargeboard.
  • barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
  • barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
  • base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • bastard pop — a type of popular music in which two records, usually from different genres or eras, are blended together into a whole, often using the vocal performance from one and the instrumental from the other
  • bastard son — an illegitimate son
  • bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
  • bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
  • batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
  • battledores — Plural form of battledore.
  • baudot code — (communications)   (For etymology, see baud) A character set predating EBCDIC and used originally and primarily on paper tape. Use of Baudot reportedly survives in TDDs and some HAM radio applications. In Baudot, characters are expressed using five bits. Baudot uses two code sub-sets, the "letter set" (LTRS), and the "figure set" (FIGS). The FIGS character (11011) signals that the following code is to be interpreted as being in the FIGS set, until this is reset by the LTRS (11111) character. binary hex LTRS FIGS -------------------------- 00011 03 A - 11001 19 B ? 01110 0E C : 01001 09 D $ 00001 01 E 3 01101 0D F ! 11010 1A G & 10100 14 H # 00110 06 I 8 01011 0B J BELL 01111 0F K ( 10010 12 L ) 11100 1C M . 01100 0C N , 11000 18 O 9 10110 16 P 0 10111 17 Q 1 01010 0A R 4 00101 05 S ' 10000 10 T 5 00111 07 U 7 11110 1E V ; 10011 13 W 2 11101 1D X / 10101 15 Y 6 10001 11 Z " 01000 08 CR CR 00010 02 LF LF 00100 04 SP SP 11111 1F LTRS LTRS 11011 1B FIGS FIGS 00000 00 [..unused..] Where CR is carriage return, LF is linefeed, BELL is the bell, SP is space, and STOP is the stop character. Note: these bit values are often shown in inverse order, depending (presumably) which side of the paper tape you were looking at. Local implementations of Baudot may differ in the use of #, STOP, BELL, and '.
  • bawdy house — a brothel.
  • bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
  • be death on — to deal with in a devastating manner
  • be made one — (of a man and a woman) to become married
  • beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
  • beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
  • bearer bond — a bond payable to the person in possession
  • beau dollar — a silver dollar.
  • beaverboard — a stiff light board of compressed wood fibre, used esp to surface partitions
  • bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
  • been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
  • before dark — If you do something before dark, you do it before the sun sets and night begins.
  • benderboard — pliable, lightweight board used for making concrete patios, in gardens, and as woven fencing: often 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) wide and 1/4 to 1/2 inch (0.6 to 1.2 cm) thick and made from California redwood.
  • bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
  • birobidzhan — a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
  • black goods — electronic goods which are housed in black or dark casings, such as televisions, CD players, etc
  • black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
  • bladdernose — hooded seal
  • bladderworm — cysticercus
  • bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
  • bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
  • block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
  • blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
  • blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
  • blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
  • blood-caked — caked with blood
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
  • boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
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