10-letter words containing b, o, s, d
- blind-spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- blindstory — a windowless story
- blood loss — loss of blood through bleeding
- blood lust — If you say that someone is driven by a blood lust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
- blood test — A blood test is a medical examination of a small amount of your blood.
- bloodiness — the state of being bloody
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- bloodstock — Horses that are bred for racing are referred to as bloodstock.
- bloodstone — a dark-green variety of chalcedony with red spots: used as a gemstone
- board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
- bobsledder — a person who bobsleds
- bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- body press — a hold in which a wrestler places full body weight on a supine opponent in trying to pin the opponent's shoulders to the mat.
- body scrub — a product designed to exfoliate the skin
- body shirt — a close-fitting shirt or blouse having a shape and seams that follow the contours of the body.
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
- boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- bomb squad — a squad or force of police officers or others trained to disarm bombs and other explosive devices.
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- bondswoman — a woman who is bound or who by bond becomes surety for another.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- borderless — without a band or margin around or along the edge
- boss-tweed — William Marcy [mahr-see] /ˈmɑr si/ (Show IPA), ("Boss Tweed") 1823–78, U.S. politician.
- bosun bird — tropic bird.
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- brassboard — in certain types of engineering, an experimental model at a more advanced stage of development than a breadboard (sense 2)
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- bread shop — a baker's shop
- broad seal — the official seal of a nation and its government
- broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
- broadlands — a Palladian mansion near Romsey in Hampshire: formerly the home of Lord Palmerston and Lord Mountbatten
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
- broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
- broadsword — a broad-bladed sword used for cutting rather than stabbing
- broodiness — moody; gloomy.
- bsp method — (programming) A CASE method from IBM.
- bull-nosed — having a rounded end
- burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- carbonados — Plural form of carbonado.
- carbonised — Alternative spelling of carbonized.
- cardboards — Plural form of cardboard.
- chessboard — A chessboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing chess.
- clapboards — Plural form of clapboard.