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11-letter words containing b, o, l, d

  • bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bridge roll — a soft bread roll in a long thin shape
  • broad glass — cylinder glass.
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • build up to — If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually.
  • bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
  • bulldogging — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
  • bullet wood — the wood of a bully tree.
  • buttonmould — the small core of plastic, wood, or metal that is the base for buttons covered with fabric, leather, etc
  • by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
  • cable modem — (communications, hardware)   A type of modem that allows people to access the Internet via their cable television service. A cable modem can transfer data at 500 kbps or higher, compared with 28.8 kbps for common telephone line modems, but the actual transfer rates may be lower depending on the number of other simultaneous users on the same cable. Industry pundits often point out that the cable system still does not have the bandwidth or service level in many areas to make this feasible. For example, it has to be capable of two-way communication. See also: DOCSIS.
  • cannabidiol — (organic compound) A non-psychoactive cannabinoid found in the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.
  • chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
  • charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
  • child labor — the regular, full-time employment of children under a legally defined age in factories, stores, offices, etc.: in the U.S., the minimum legal age under federal law is 16 (in hazardous occupations, 18)
  • cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
  • clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
  • closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
  • cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
  • cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
  • club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
  • cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
  • cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
  • cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
  • coldblooded — having a body temperature that fluctuates, approximating that of the surrounding air, land, or water
  • color-blind — Someone who is color-blind cannot see the difference between colors, especially between red and green.
  • colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
  • colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
  • comedy club — a club where stand-up comedians perform
  • commandable — able to be commanded
  • commendable — If you describe someone's behaviour as commendable, you approve of it or are praising it.
  • commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
  • concludable — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
  • condemnable — to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicate strong disapproval of; censure.
  • condensable — capable of being condensed.
  • condensible — capable of being condensed.
  • conductible — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
  • conglobated — in the form of a globe or ball
  • cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
  • cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
  • day laborer — an unskilled worker paid by the day
  • db2 catalog — (database)   An IBM DB2 system table listing all objects in a database installation including hosts, servers, databases, tables and many more. Commands are provided to manage the catalog, e.g. db2 catalog database mydatabase on /databases/mydatabase to add a database reference.
  • deal a blow — If an event deals a blow to something or someone, it causes them great difficulties or makes failure more likely.
  • dealing box — a box that holds a deck or decks of cards, allowing them to be dealt only one at a time, often used in casino games such as blackjack or chemin de fer.
  • delagoa bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean, in S Mozambique
  • deliberator — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.
  • demobilized — Simple past tense and past participle of demobilize.
  • demobilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demobilize.
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