11-letter words containing b, o, s, d
- body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- bored stiff — very bored
- bosom buddy — close friend
- boss around — order about
- bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
- boundedness — the quality of being bounded
- brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- broad glass — cylinder glass.
- broad-based — comprehensive and inclusive
- broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
- broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
- broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
- bromidrosis — the production of foul-smelling perspiration
- brown goods — Brown goods are electrical appliances such as televisions and audio equipment. Compare white goods.
- brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
- 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.
- carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
- cerebroside — any glycolipid in which N-acyl sphingosine is combined with glucose or galactose: occurs in the myelin sheaths of nerves
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- 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.
- cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
- condensable — capable of being condensed.
- condensible — capable of being condensed.
- contrabands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contraband.
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- cross-breed — If one species of animal or plant cross-breeds with another, they reproduce, and new or different animals or plants are produced. You can also say that someone cross-breeds something such as an animal or plant.
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
- crossbedded — having layers of rock oblique or transverse to the main beds of stratified rock
- crossbreeds — Plural form of crossbreed.
- cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
- demibastion — half a bastion, having only one flank, at right angles to the wall
- demobilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demobilize.
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- deoxyribose — a pentose sugar obtained by the hydrolysis of DNA. Formula: C5H10O4