9-letter words containing b, o, d, y
- bydgoszcz — an industrial city and port in N Poland: under Prussian rule from 1772 to 1919. Pop: 579 000 (2005 est)
- byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- byte-code — (file format, software) A binary file containing an executable program, consisting of a sequence of (op code, data) pairs. Byte-code op codes are most often fixed size bit patterns, but can be variable size. The data portion consists of zero or more bits whose format typically depends on the op code. A byte-code program is interpreted by a byte-code interpreter. The advantage of this technique compared with outputing machine code for some particular processor is that the same byte-code can be executed on any processor on which the byte-code interpreter runs. The byte-code may be compiled to machine code ("native code") for speed of execution but this usually requires significantly greater effort for each new taraget architecture than simply porting the interpreter. For example, Java is compiled to byte-code which runs on the Java Virtual Machine.
- cell body — the compact area of a nerve cell that constitutes the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm, excluding the axons and dendrites.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.
- daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
- diabolify — (transitive) To ascribe diabolical qualities to; to change into, or represent as, a devil.
- diabology — the study of the devil or devils
- dicky bow — a bow tie
- disembody — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
- disobeyed — Simple past tense and past participle of disobey.
- disobeyer — One who disobeys.
- ditty box — a small box used like a ditty bag.
- doability — Feasibility; practicability.
- dobsonfly — a large, soft-bodied insect, Corydalus cornutus, having four distinctly veined membranous wings, biting mouthparts, and, in the male, huge mandibles that jut out from the head.
- dogberrys — a foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
- doggy bag — a small bag provided on request by a restaurant for a customer to carry home leftovers of a meal, ostensibly to feed a dog or other pet.
- dolly tub — an apparatus for agitating and washing ore in a vessel
- dollybird — an attractive and fashionable girl, esp one who is considered to be unintelligent
- doubleday — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- doubtably — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- doughboys — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
- dubiosity — dubiety.
- dubiously — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- dutybound — Compelled by duty.
- embodying — Present participle of embody.
- everybody — Every person.
- food body — a mass of nutrients attached to a seed coat, which attracts ants and thus aids dispersal of the seed
- go beyond — exceed
- goody bag — A goody bag is a bag of little gifts, often given away by manufacturers in order to encourage people to try their products.
- gray body — any body that emits radiation at each wavelength in a constant ratio less than unity to that emitted by a black body at the same temperature.
- grey body — a body that emits radiation in constant proportion to the corresponding black-body radiation
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- hydrobomb — an aerial torpedo equipped with a rocket engine that propels it after the torpedo has entered the water.
- keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
- labor day — (in the U.S.) a legal holiday, commonly the first Monday in September, in honor of labor.
- main body — the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.
- microbody — (cytology): A cellular organelle bound by a single membrane and containing enzymes.
- mind-body — taking into account the physiological, psychic, and spiritual connections between the state of the body and that of the mind: mind-body medicine.
- moby dick — a novel (1851) by Herman Melville.
- molybdate — a salt of any molybdic acid.
- molybdous — of or containing molybdenum, especially in its lower valences.
- morbidity — a morbid state or quality.
- obtundity — the state of having the senses numbed or less sharp
- pay board — a former government agency that controlled prices and wages
- re-embody — to embody again