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15-letter words containing b, o, s, d

  • borrower's card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
  • boustrophedonic — of or relating to lines written in opposite directions
  • brand extension — the practice of using a well-known brand name to promote new products or services in unrelated fields
  • breeding season — the time of year during which animals breed
  • bridge of sighs — a covered 16th-century bridge in Venice, between the Doges' Palace and the prisons, through which prisoners were formerly led to trial or execution
  • broadcast storm — (networking)   A broadcast on a network that causes multiple hosts to respond by broadcasting themselves, causing the storm to grow exponentially in severity. See network meltdown.
  • bronze diabetes — hemochromatosis.
  • brown-and-serve — requiring only a brief period of browning, as in an oven, before being ready to serve: brown-and-serve rolls.
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • buffalo soldier — (formerly, especially among American Indians) a black soldier.
  • bullnose header — bull header (def 1).
  • bullnose-header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • business double — a double made to increase the penalty points earned when a player believes the opponents cannot make their bid.
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
  • color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
  • corps de ballet — In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who dance together, in contrast to the main dancers, who dance by themselves.
  • coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
  • cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • destabilisation — Alternative spelling of destabilization.
  • destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
  • destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
  • discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • dishabilitation — the imposition of a legal disqualification
  • distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
  • distributorship — a franchise held by a distributor.
  • do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • do sb's bidding — If you say that someone does another person's bidding, you disapprove of the fact that they do exactly what the other person asks them to do, even when they do not want to.
  • do the business — to achieve what is required
  • dodecasyllables — Plural form of dodecasyllable.
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • double exposure — the act of exposing the same film, frame, plate, etc., twice.
  • double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double or quits — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
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