11-letter words containing d, e, b, o
- bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
- been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
- before dark — If you do something before dark, you do it before the sun sets and night begins.
- behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
- bellfounder — a foundry worker who casts bells
- bellmouthed — having a flaring mouth or opening like that of a bell
- below decks — If someone or something is below decks, they are inside a ship in the part of it that is underneath the deck.
- belowground — underground
- bend double — When you bend double, you bend the top half of your body downwards a long way.
- benderboard — pliable, lightweight board used for making concrete patios, in gardens, and as woven fencing: often 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) wide and 1/4 to 1/2 inch (0.6 to 1.2 cm) thick and made from California redwood.
- benediction — A benediction is a kind of Christian prayer.
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- bent double — If someone is bent double, the top part of their body is leaning forward towards their legs, usually because they are in great pain or because they are laughing a lot. In American English, you can also say that someone is bent over double.
- bid welcome — to receive with cordial greetings
- big diomede — See under Diomede Islands.
- bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
- billet-doux — a love letter
- binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
- biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
- biomedicine — the medical study of the effects of unusual environmental stress on human beings, esp in connection with space travel
- biomodeling — the mathematical modeling of biological reactions.
- bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
- blindfolded — wearing a blindfold
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- blood fluke — any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea
- blood level — the amount of a substance, as cholesterol, alcohol, or triglycerides, circulating in the bloodstream: often expressed as a percent or in milligrams or micrograms per deciliter of blood.
- blood libel — the malicious accusation that Jews used the blood of non-Jews in religious rituals
- blood money — If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation.
- blood purge — the mass execution, especially by a government, of persons considered guilty of treason or sedition.
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- blood-caked — caked with blood
- bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
- bloodletter — someone or something which lets blood
- bloodmobile — a motor vehicle equipped for collecting blood from donors
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- blow-molded — (of plastic hollowware) made by blowing and shaping in a mold; mold-blown.
- bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.