13-letter words containing b, o, d
- be wild about — If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much.
- beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
- beauty editor — the person in charge of a section of newspaper or magazine devoted to cosmetics, etc
- bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
- bedroom farce — a light comedy about sexual relationships
- bedroom scene — a scene in which lovers are in bed
- bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
- bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- beetle-browed — having bushy or overhanging eyebrows
- beg to differ — politely disagree
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
- bespottedness — the state of being covered with spots or blemishes
- bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
- best of breed — The best of breed is the animal that wins first prize in its section at a dog show.
- bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
- beyond a joke — If you say that an annoying or worrying situation is beyond a joke, you are emphasizing that it is worse than you think is fair or reasonable.
- beyond belief — You use beyond belief to emphasize that something is true to a very great degree or that it happened to a very great degree.
- beyond number — too numerous to be counted
- beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
- biconditional — (of a proposition) asserting that the existence or occurrence of one thing or event depends on, and is dependent on, the existence or occurrence of another, as “A if and only if B.”.
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- bill of goods — a list of items for sale, consignment, shipment, etc
- billiard room — a room in a house, club, etc., where billiards is played.
- biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
- bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
- bird of peace — a dove.
- bishop's weed — goutweed.
- bishop's-weed — goutweed.
- bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
- bits and bobs — Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something.
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black diamond — coal (sense 1)
- bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
- block diagram — a diagram showing the interconnections between the parts of an industrial process
- blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
- blood alcohol — alcohol that is circulating in the blood
- blood blister — a blister filled with blood
- blood brother — A man's blood brother is a man he has sworn to treat as a brother, often in a ceremony which involves mixing a small amount of their blood.
- blood diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
- blood glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
- blood product — a pharmaceutical product made from blood, such as Factor VIII
- blood profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
- blood pudding — Blood pudding is another word for black pudding.
- blood sausage — a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients