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12-letter words containing b, y, d

  • blood typing — the classification of human blood cells to determine compatible blood types as for transfusion or organ transplant
  • bloodthirsty — Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
  • bloody shirt — something, as a political issue or historical event, that can be used to stir up outrage, partisan support, etc.
  • boarder baby — an infant or young child who is abandoned or orphaned and left in a hospital for lack of a foster home.
  • body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
  • body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
  • body fascism — intolerance of those whose bodies do not conform to a particular view of what is desirable
  • body politic — The body politic is all the people of a nation when they are considered as a complete political group.
  • body popping — a dance style involving muscular jerking of the upper body
  • body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
  • body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
  • body-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
  • bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
  • bodybuilding — Bodybuilding is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
  • bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
  • boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
  • bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
  • bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
  • bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
  • break of day — dawn; daybreak.
  • bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • buddy system — (in swimming and scuba diving) the practice of pairing swimmers, each being responsible for the other's safety.
  • bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
  • buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • butyric acid — type of acid
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • buzzards bay — arm of the Atlantic, on the SE coast of Mass., at the base of Cape Cod peninsula
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • by deed poll — In Britain, if you change your name by deed poll, you change it officially and legally.
  • by the dozen — in large quantities
  • call-by-need — (reduction)   A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
  • cape cod bay — a part of Massachusetts Bay, enclosed by the Cape Cod peninsula.
  • carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
  • carbohydrate — Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • cardigan bay — an inlet of St George's Channel, on the W coast of Wales
  • carotid body — a small mass of cells and nerve endings adjacent to the carotid sinus that, in response to chemical changes in the blood, adjusts the respiratory rate.
  • chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
  • chord symbol — any of a series of letters and numerals, used as a shorthand indication of chords, esp in jazz, folk, or pop music
  • ciliary body — the part of the vascular tunic of the eye that connects the choroid with the iris
  • cockeyed bob — a short, violent storm.
  • columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
  • combat-ready — ready for combat
  • considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
  • country-bred — brought up in the country
  • county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
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