10-letter words containing b, o, l, d
- floorboard — any of the boards composing a floor.
- floordrobe — a pile of clothes left on the floor of a room
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- flower bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- flowerbeds — Plural form of flowerbed.
- fluoboride — (chemistry) Any borofluoride.
- flushboard — Alternative form of flashboard.
- foolbegged — foolish
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- full blood — a person or animal of unmixed ancestry; one descended of a pure breed. Compare purebred.
- full board — accommodation: room and meals
- furbelowed — Simple past tense and past participle of furbelow.
- globalised — Simple past tense and past participle of globalise.
- globalized — to extend to other or all parts of the globe; make worldwide: efforts to globalize the auto industry.
- god bless! — may God bestow blessings on you
- gold basis — a gold standard as a basis for prices.
- gold braid — a gold-coloured braid which is used to decorate uniforms
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- goldbeater — a person who pounds gold into thin leaves for use in gilding
- goldberger — Joseph, 1874–1929, U.S. physician, born in Austria: discovered the cause of and treatment for pellagra.
- golden boy — a man or boy who is especially popular and successful
- golgi body — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
- gorbellied — a protruding belly.
- groundball — Alternative form of ground ball.
- half board — demi-pension (def 1).
- half-blood — the relation between persons having only one common parent.
- half-board — demi-pension (def 1).
- half-bound — bound in half binding.
- hard labor — compulsory labor imposed upon criminals in addition to imprisonment, generally not exceeding ordinary labor in severity or amount.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hebdomadal — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- hornblende — a dark-green to black mineral of the amphibole group, calcium magnesium iron and hydroxyl aluminosilicate.
- hotblooded — Spirited, rash, reckless.
- idioblasts — Plural form of idioblast.
- ill-boding — foreboding evil; inauspicious; unlucky: ill-boding stars.
- jobholders — Plural form of jobholder.
- labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.
- lambdoidal — Lambdoid.
- laminboard — A compound wood board consisting of thin strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of higher quality than blockboard.
- lay aboard — (formerly) to move alongside a warship to board it
- lead block — any block that alters the direction of a rope; fairlead.
- lear board — (on a sloping roof) a board laid next to the gutter to receive the turned-up edge of the metal lining.
- libidinous — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- linerboard — a type of paperboard used especially for containers, as corrugated boxes.
- loaf bread — commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.
- loan-blend — a compound word or expression consisting of both native and foreign elements.
- longbeards — Plural form of longbeard.