9-letter words containing d, o, b, s
- bobsy-die — fuss; confusion; pandemonium (esp in the phrases kick up bobsy-die, play bobsy-die)
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- body mass — the ratio of a person's weight to their height
- body shop — a place where the bodywork of motor vehicles is built or repaired
- body slam — a wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and hurled to the mat, landing on his or her back.
- body-slam — to lift and throw (someone) to the ground, as in wrestling
- body-surf — to ride a wave by lying on it without a surfboard
- bodyshell — the external shell of a motor vehicle
- bogorodsk — former name of Noginsk.
- bolstered — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bondstone — a long stone or brick laid in a wall as a header
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- boondocks — If you say that someone lives in the boondocks, you mean that they live a long way from any large cities.
- boot disk — (operating system) The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- bosberaad — a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
- boskopoid — of, relating to, or characteristic of Boskop man or the culture or habitat of Boskop man.
- boss-eyed — having a squint
- boundless — If you describe something as boundless, you mean that there seems to be no end or limit to it.
- boundness — the quality of being bound or obligated
- bow doors — the doors in the bow of a ferry, which open for vehicles to drive on and off
- broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- broadside — A broadside is a strong written or spoken attack on a person or institution.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- broodless — with no brood
- brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
- bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
- burdenous — burdensome
- burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- bydgoszcz — an industrial city and port in N Poland: under Prussian rule from 1772 to 1919. Pop: 579 000 (2005 est)
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crossbred — (of plants or animals) produced as a result of crossbreeding
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- d'amboise — Jacques [French zhahk] /French ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), (Joseph) born 1934, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer.
- dashboard — The dashboard in a car is the panel facing the driver's seat where most of the instruments and switches are.
- datebooks — Plural form of datebook.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- deposable — Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
- deskbound — doing sedentary work; working exclusively at a desk.
- diabolism — activities designed to enlist the aid of devils, esp in witchcraft or sorcery
- diabolist — Theology. action aided or caused by the devil; sorcery; witchcraft. the character or condition of a devil. a doctrine concerning devils. a belief in or worship of devils.
- disbodied — (archaic) disembodied.
- discoboli — Plural form of discobolus.