10-letter words containing d, o, b, i
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- globalised — Simple past tense and past participle of globalise.
- globalized — to extend to other or all parts of the globe; make worldwide: efforts to globalize the auto industry.
- god forbid — If you say God forbid, you are expressing your hope that something will not happen.
- gold basis — a gold standard as a basis for prices.
- gold braid — a gold-coloured braid which is used to decorate uniforms
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- golgi body — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
- gooneybird — an informal name for the albatross, esp the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
- gorbellied — a protruding belly.
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
- guidebooks — Plural form of guidebook.
- harborside — bordering a harbor.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hemerobiid — (zoology) Any insect of the brown lacewing family, Hemerobiidae.
- high board — a diving board three meters above the water.
- highbrowed — (of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured.
- homebodies — Plural form of homebody.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hyoid bone — the horseshoe-shaped bone that lies at the base of the tongue and above the thyroid cartilage or a corresponding bone or group of bones in other vertebrates
- i doubt it — a card game, the object of which is to rid oneself of all cards, in which the first player places aces face down on the table and the others follow, in turn, with cards of the next lower rank, adding at will other cards, except that if such deception is successfully challenged, the player must pick up all the cards then on the table.
- idioblasts — Plural form of idioblast.
- ill-boding — foreboding evil; inauspicious; unlucky: ill-boding stars.
- imageboard — A type of Internet forum that revolves around the posting of images with minimal associated text.
- indigobird — Any of various African passerine birds of the family Viduidae.
- inobedient — disobedient
- inside job — a crime committed by or in collusion with a person or persons closely associated with the victim: The robbery seemed an inside job, because there was no evidence of forced entry.
- ionic bond — the electrostatic bond between two ions formed through the transfer of one or more electrons.
- jaborandis — Plural form of jaborandi.
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- lambdoidal — Lambdoid.
- laminboard — A compound wood board consisting of thin strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of higher quality than blockboard.
- libidinous — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- linerboard — a type of paperboard used especially for containers, as corrugated boxes.
- ludibrious — (obsolete) sportive; wanton.
- lumbricoid — resembling an earthworm.
- microblade — bladelet.
- middlebrow — a person of conventional tastes and interests in matters of culture; a moderately cultivated person.
- mindblower — a hallucinogenic drug.
- misdoubted — Simple past tense and past participle of misdoubt.
- modifiable — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- molybdosis — a form of poisoning caused by lead
- monohybrid — the offspring of individuals that differ with respect to a particular gene pair.
- moon-blind — (of horses) afflicted with moon blindness; moon-eyed.
- morbidezza — the effect of extreme softness and delicacy in pictorial and sculptural representations.
- morbidness — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- moribundly — In a moribund way.