8-letter words containing d, h
- b-method — (programming, tool) A system for rigorous or formal development of software using the notion of Abstract Machines to specify and design software systems. The B-Method is supported by the B-Toolkit. Abstract Machines are specified using the Abstract Machine Notation (AMN) which is in turn based on the mathematical theory of Generalised Substitutions.
- babyhood — Your babyhood is the period of your life when you were a baby.
- backhand — A backhand is a shot in tennis or squash, which you make with your arm across your body.
- badmouth — (informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
- baldhead — a person with a bald head
- bandfish — a Mediterranean fish with an elongated body
- bandhani — A style of tie-dyeing practised in parts of India.
- banished — Simple past tense and past participle of banish.
- bankhead — Tallulah (Brockman). 1902–68, US stage and film actress; her successes included the plays The Little Foxes (1939) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)
- bardship — the office or state of being a bard
- barehand — to field (the ball) with one's bare hands rather than one's glove
- be ahead — to have an advantage; be winning
- beakhead — (nautical) A protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship.
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- bedights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedight.
- bedlight — a bedlamp.
- bedrench — to drench thoroughly; soak
- bedright — a right expected in the marital bed
- bedsheet — a sheet for a bed
- bedworth — a town in central England, in N Warwickshire. Pop: 30 001 (2001)
- behatted — wearing a hat
- beheadal — a beheading
- beheader — a person who beheads another
- beholden — If you are beholden to someone, you are in debt to them in some way or you feel that you have a duty to them because they have helped you.
- beholder — The beholder of something is the person who is looking at it.
- behooved — to be necessary or proper for, as for moral or ethical considerations; be incumbent on: It behooves the court to weigh evidence impartially.
- berdache — a Native American transvestite
- beshadow — to darken with shadow
- beshroud — to cover with a shroud
- beth din — a rabbinical court, consisting of at least three dayanim, and having authority over such matters as divorce and conversion and other communal ecclesiastical matters such as Kashruth. It may also try civil disputes with the consent of both parties
- bethesda — a pool in Jerusalem reputed to have healing powers, where a paralysed man was healed by Jesus (John 5:2)
- bhc code — Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem Code
- big head — If you describe someone as a big head, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
- billhead — a printed form for making out bills
- birdbath — a small basin or trough for birds to bathe in, usually in a garden
- birdshot — small pellets designed for shooting birds
- birthday — Your birthday is the anniversary of the date on which you were born.
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
- blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- bleached — made lighter in colour
- blighted — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- blondish — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- blotched — Something that is blotched has blotches on it.
- blowhard — If you describe someone as a blowhard, you mean that they express their opinions very forcefully, and usually in a boastful way.
- bluehead — either of two fish of the wrasse family, Thalassoma amblycephalum or Thalassoma bifasciatum
- bolthead — the head of a bolt
- bonehead — a stupid or obstinate person
- boobhead — a repeat offender in a prison
- boofhead — a stupid person
- borghild — (in the Volsunga Saga) the first wife of Sigmund: she poisons Sinfiotli in revenge for his killing of her brother.