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

  • bitterwood — any of several simaroubaceous trees of the genus Picrasma of S and SE Asia and the Caribbean, whose bitter bark and wood are used in medicine as a substitute for quassia
  • bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
  • blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
  • blastodisk — germinal disk
  • blind copy — a copy of a letter or the like, the original of which bears no evidence that the copy was sent to some other person.
  • blind door — a door having louvers permitting circulation of air.
  • blind hole — a hole whose green cannot be seen by the approaching golfer because of trees or other obstructions.
  • blind spot — If you say that someone has a blind spot about something, you mean that they seem to be unable to understand it or to see how important it is.
  • blind-spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
  • blind-worm — a limbless European lizard, Anguis fragilis, related to the glass lizards.
  • blindstory — a windowless story
  • blood lily — any of various bulbous plants of the genus Haemanthus, native to Africa, having clusters of red or white flowers.
  • bloodguilt — guilt of murder or shedding blood
  • bloodiness — the state of being bloody
  • bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
  • bloomfield — Leonard. 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933)
  • blow-dried — dried using hairdryer
  • board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
  • boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
  • bodhi tree — the sacred peepul at Buddh Gaya under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha
  • body fluid — any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.
  • body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
  • body shirt — a close-fitting shirt or blouse having a shape and seams that follow the contours of the body.
  • bog orchid — an orchid, Hammarbya (or Malaxis) paludosa, growing in sphagnum bogs in the N hemisphere. It has greenish-yellow flowers and its leaves bear a fringe of tiny bulbils
  • bohemond i — ?1056–?1111, prince of Antioch (1099–1111); a leader of the first crusade, he helped to capture Antioch (1098)
  • boiled egg — an egg cooked in its shell in boiling water
  • boiled oil — any of several oils, esp. linseed, that are heated (not boiled) and mixed with driers to form a thick, dark, quick-drying oil
  • bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
  • boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
  • bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
  • bombardier — the member of a bomber aircrew responsible for aiming and releasing the bombs
  • bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
  • bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
  • bookbinder — A bookbinder is a person whose job is fastening books together and putting covers on them.
  • bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
  • borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
  • bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
  • boric acid — a white soluble weakly acid crystalline solid used in the manufacture of heat-resistant glass and porcelain enamels, as a fireproofing material, and as a mild antiseptic. Formula: H3BO3
  • bosun bird — tropic bird.
  • botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
  • bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
  • bow window — a bay window in the shape of a curve
  • bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
  • bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
  • box girder — a girder that is hollow and square or rectangular in shape
  • boxing day — Boxing Day is the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day.
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