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11-letter words containing b, o, 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 confined — to be undergoing childbirth
  • be death on — to deal with in a devastating manner
  • be dirty on — to be offended by or be hostile towards
  • be good for — If someone is good for something, you can rely on them to provide that thing.
  • 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
  • bed molding — a molding below a projecting part, esp. between the corona and frieze
  • bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
  • bedding out — the process of planting out young flowering plants in beds
  • 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.
  • behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
  • bellfounder — a foundry worker who casts bells
  • bellmouthed — having a flaring mouth or opening like that of a bell
  • below decks — If someone or something is below decks, they are inside a ship in the part of it that is underneath the deck.
  • belowground — underground
  • bend double — When you bend double, you bend the top half of your body downwards a long way.
  • 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.
  • benediction — A benediction is a kind of Christian prayer.
  • benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
  • bent double — If someone is bent double, the top part of their body is leaning forward towards their legs, usually because they are in great pain or because they are laughing a lot. In American English, you can also say that someone is bent over double.
  • bid welcome — to receive with cordial greetings
  • big diomede — See under Diomede Islands.
  • bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
  • billet-doux — a love letter
  • 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
  • bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
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