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14-letter words containing b, o, d, y

  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • forbidden city — a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • golden goodbye — A golden goodbye is the same as a golden handshake.
  • governing body — board, regulatory authority
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • hobbledehoydom — the condition of being a hobbledehoy
  • hobbledehoyish — of or like a hobbledehoy
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
  • hydrophobicity — (chemistry, uncountable) The condition of being hydrophobic.
  • hydroxybenzene — phenol (def 1).
  • hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
  • hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
  • inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
  • inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indomitability — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • lemonade berry — a sumac, Rhus integrifolia, of southern California, having hairy, dark-red fruits used to make a beverage resembling lemonade.
  • liberty bodice — a sleeveless vest-like undergarment made from thick cotton and covering the upper part of the body, formerly worn esp by young children
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
  • methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
  • mindbogglingly — In a mindboggling manner; in such a way as to boggle the mind; so as to be beyond comprehension or understanding.
  • morbid anatomy — the branch of medical science concerned with the study of the structure of diseased organs and tissues
  • morbid obesity — a state of obesity in which the body mass index is between 40 and 49.9 kg/m2
  • morbidity rate — a measure of the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
  • non-subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
  • pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
  • penalty double — business double.
  • pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
  • porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
  • productibility — the ability to produce
  • public holiday — national day off work
  • record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
  • red chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
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