12-letter words containing b, o, d, y
- carotid body — a small mass of cells and nerve endings adjacent to the carotid sinus that, in response to chemical changes in the blood, adjusts the respiratory rate.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chord symbol — any of a series of letters and numerals, used as a shorthand indication of chords, esp in jazz, folk, or pop music
- ciliary body — the part of the vascular tunic of the eye that connects the choroid with the iris
- cockeyed bob — a short, violent storm.
- columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
- combat-ready — ready for combat
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- country-bred — brought up in the country
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- detonability — the quality of being detonable
- diabolically — having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked: a diabolic plot.
- dicarboxylic — containing two carboxyl groups in the molecule
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
- dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- donkey derby — a race in which contestants ride donkeys, esp at a rural fête
- double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
- double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
- double dummy — a variety of bridge for two players in which two hands are kept face down until the end of the bidding when both hands are exposed.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- dry-bone ore — a porous variety of smithsonite found near the surface of the earth.
- dyer's-broom — woadwaxen.
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- food subsidy — a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, farmers, or consumers, in order to make low-cost food available to the poor
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- go-away bird — a common name for a grey-plumaged lourie of the genus Corythaixoides
- gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- good ol' boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
- good old boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- hobbledehoys — Plural form of hobbledehoy.
- honey badger — ratel.
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- hybrid vigor — heterosis.