12-letter words containing b, o, a, d
- bard of avon — Shakespeare
- bardolatrous — relating to or characterized by bardolatry
- barium oxide — a white or yellowish-white poisonous heavy powder used esp as a dehydrating agent. Formula: BaO
- barodynamics — the branch of mechanics concerned with heavy structures
- basidiocarps — Plural form of basidiocarp.
- basidiospore — one of the spores, usually four in number, produced in a basidium
- basset hound — A basset hound is a dog with short strong legs, a long body, and long ears. It is kept as a pet or used for hunting.
- bastardsword — Alternative spelling of bastard sword.
- bastinadoing — Present participle of bastinado.
- batter board — (at a building site) one of a number of boards set horizontally to support strings for outlining the foundation plan of a building.
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
- bay of fundy — an inlet of the Atlantic in SE Canada, between S New Brunswick and W Nova Scotia: remarkable for its swift tides of up to 21 m (70 ft)
- beaconsfield — a town in SE England, in Buckinghamshire. Pop: 12 292 (2001)
- bead molding — bead (def 12).
- bear down on — to press down on; exert pressure on
- beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
- bearing down — to hold up; support: to bear the weight of the roof.
- bed of nails — a situation or position of extreme difficulty
- belleau wood — a forest in N France: site of a battle (1918) in which the US Marines halted a German advance on Paris
- benzoic acid — a white crystalline solid occurring in many natural resins, used in the manufacture of benzoates, plasticizers, and dyes and as a food preservative (E210). Formula: C6H5COOH
- beyond reach — inaccessible
- bill and coo — the parts of a bird's jaws that are covered with a horny or leathery sheath; beak.
- bioflavonoid — any of a group of biologically active flavone compounds that may help maintain the blood's capillary walls, reducing the likelihood of hemorrhaging: widely found in plants, esp. citrus fruits
- biohazardous — a pathogen, especially one used in or produced by biological research.
- birthday boy — the boy or man whose birthday is being celebrated
- black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
- bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
- block island — an island off the coast of and a part of Rhode Island, at the E entrance to Long Island Sound.
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- blood plasma — the pale yellow fluid portion of the blood; blood from which red and white blood cells and platelets have been removed
- blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
- blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
- board member — a member of board of directors
- board school — (formerly) a school managed by a board elected by local ratepayers
- board shorts — shorts with longer legs, originally meant to protect a surfer's legs against the surfboard
- boarder baby — an infant or young child who is abandoned or orphaned and left in a hospital for lack of a foster home.
- boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
- body fascism — intolerance of those whose bodies do not conform to a particular view of what is desirable
- body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
- bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
- bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.