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10-letter words containing b, o, w, d

  • climb-down — a retreat, as from an indefensible opinion or position.
  • crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
  • death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
  • deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
  • disembowel — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
  • doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
  • doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
  • downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
  • downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
  • drop elbow — an elbow having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
  • fiddle bow — a bow with which the strings of the violin or a similar instrument are set in vibration.
  • 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.
  • furbelowed — Simple past tense and past participle of furbelow.
  • handbarrow — a frame with handles at each end by which it is carried.
  • highbrowed — (of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured.
  • low-budget — made or done on a small or reduced budget; costing relatively little money: a low-budget film.
  • marblewood — any of several trees having wood somewhat resembling marble in graining or texture, as Diospyros marmorata, of southern Asia, or Olea paniculata, of Australia.
  • middlebrow — a person of conventional tastes and interests in matters of culture; a moderately cultivated person.
  • mindblower — a hallucinogenic drug.
  • narrowband — Of or involving signals over a narrow range of frequencies.
  • narrowbody — (aeronautics) An airliner capable of seating six or less passengers in a single row of economy seating, with one aisle.
  • powder boy — powder monkey (def 1).
  • ribbonwood — a small evergreen malvaceous tree, Hoheria populnea, of New Zealand. Its wood is used in furniture making and the tough bark for making cord
  • salad bowl — a large bowl in which a salad, especially a tossed salad, is served.
  • shadow box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
  • shadow-box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
  • snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
  • snow-blind — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
  • snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
  • stab wound — knife injury
  • strawboard — coarse, yellow paperboard made of straw pulp, used in packing, for making boxes, etc.
  • swedenborg — Emanuel [ih-man-yoo-uh l;; Swedish e-mah-noo-uh l] /ɪˈmæn yu əl;; Swedish ɛˈmɑ nu əl/ (Show IPA), (Emanuel Swedberg) 1688–1772, Swedish scientist, philosopher, and mystic.
  • sword bean — a twining vine, Canavalia gladiata, of the legume family, found in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, having large, showy, pealike flowers and reddish-brown seeds.
  • sword belt — a military belt from which a sword may be hung.
  • trowbridge — a market town in SW England, administrative centre of Wiltshire: woollen manufacturing. Pop: 34 401 (2001)
  • tumbledown — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
  • unbestowed — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
  • unborrowed — not borrowed
  • waferboard — a structural material made from wood wafers of controlled thickness and length bonded together with waterproof phenolic resin under extreme heat and pressure.
  • wallboards — Plural form of wallboard.
  • wardrobing — a stock of clothes or costumes, as of a person or of a theatrical company.
  • washboards — Plural form of washboard.
  • waterboard — Subject (someone) to the process of waterboarding.
  • web editor — software for creating internet content
  • web-footed — a foot with the toes joined by a web.
  • wedge tomb — a Neolithic chamber tomb found in the British Isles, having a trapezoidal or D-shaped cairn and a long, narrow chamber opening into it from the wider, higher side.
  • weighboard — a thin layer (e.g. shale or clay) between bands of thicker strata (e.g. limestone or sandstone)
  • whiteboard — a smooth, glossy sheet of white plastic that can be written on with a colored pen or marker in the manner of a blackboard.
  • widebodied — (aeronautics) An airliner that can seat more than six passengers in each row, in economy seating.
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