7-letter words containing b, o, d
- boldest — not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring: a bold hero.
- bolixed — to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
- bolland — Jean de [French zhahn duh] /French ʒɑ̃ də/ (Show IPA), or Johan van [Flemish yoh-hahn vahn] /Flemish yoʊˈhɑn vɑn/ (Show IPA), or John, 1596–1665, Belgian Jesuit hagiographer.
- bollard — Bollards are short thick concrete posts that are used to prevent cars from going on to someone's land or on to part of a road.
- bombard — If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.
- bondage — Bondage is the condition of being someone's property and having to work for them.
- bonding — the process by which individuals become emotionally attached to one another
- bondman — a feudal serf
- bondmen — a male slave.
- bonnard — Pierre (pjɛr). 1867–1947, French painter and lithographer, noted for the effects of light and colour in his landscapes and sunlit interiors
- boobird — a person who habitually criticizes or jeers
- boodler — a person involved in bribery or corruption
- bookend — Bookends are a pair of supports used to hold a row of books in an upright position by placing one at each end of the row.
- borders — administrative division of S Scotland, on the English border: 1,800 sq mi (4,662 sq km); pop. 101,000
- bordure — the outer edge of a shield, esp when decorated distinctively
- boredom — Boredom is the state of being bored.
- borodin — Aleksandr Porfirevich (alɪkˈsandr pərfiˈrjevitʃ). 1834–87, Russian composer, whose works include the unfinished opera Prince Igor, symphonies, songs, and chamber music
- bosomed — having a (specified kind of) bosom
- bossdom — the quality of being a boss
- botched — bungled or mishandled
- bottled — Bottled gas is kept under pressure in special metal cylinders which can be moved from one place to another.
- boudoir — A boudoir is a woman's bedroom or private sitting room.
- boughed — having a bough or boughs (usually used in combination): golden-boughed elms.
- boulder — A boulder is a large rounded rock.
- bounded — (of a set) having a bound, esp where a measure is defined in terms of which all the elements of the set, or the differences between all pairs of members, are less than some value, or else all its members lie within some other well-defined set
- bounden — morally obligatory (archaic except in the phrase bounden duty)
- bounder — If you call a man a bounder, you mean he behaves in an unkind, deceitful, or selfish way.
- bourder — a person who jests or jokes
- bourdon — a 16-foot organ stop of the stopped diapason type
- boutade — an outburst; sally
- bowhead — a large-mouthed arctic whale, Balaena mysticetus, that has become rare through overfishing but is now a protected species
- bowlder — boulder
- bowwood — Osage orange (def 1).
- box bed — a bed completely enclosed so as to resemble a box.
- boxhead — a heading, usually atthe top of a page, newspaper column, or column of figures, enclosed in a box formed by rules.
- boxwood — Boxwood is a type of wood which is obtained from a box tree.
- boyhood — Boyhood is the period of a male person's life during which he is a boy.
- bradsot — braxy (def 1).
- braford — one of a breed of beef cattle, developed in the southwestern U.S. from Brahman and Hereford stock, especially well adapted to sparse grazing and a hot, humid environment.
- bragdon — Claude, 1866–1946, U.S. architect, stage designer, and author.
- brandon — a masculine name
- bravado — Bravado is an appearance of courage or confidence that someone shows in order to impress other people.
- bridoon — a horse's bit: a small snaffle used in double bridles
- broad a — of or relating to a type of pronunciation transcription in which symbols correspond approximately to phonemes without taking account of allophonic variations
- broadax — an ax with a broad blade, used as a weapon or for hewing timber
- broaden — When something broadens, it becomes wider.
- broader — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- broadly — You can use broadly to indicate that something is generally true.
- broadus — something given as a bonus; lagniappe.
- brocade — Brocade is a thick, expensive material, often made of silk, with a raised pattern on it.