11-letter words containing d, o, b, y
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- by order of — according to the command of
- combat duty — active service
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- comedy club — a club where stand-up comedians perform
- commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
- comorbidity — the occurrence of more than one illness or condition at the same time
- crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
- currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
- daimyo bond — a bearer bond issued in Japan and the eurobond market by the World Bank
- day boarder — a child attending a boarding school who has meals at the school but sleeps at home
- day laborer — an unskilled worker paid by the day
- delagoa bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean, in S Mozambique
- demob-happy — feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces
- deoxyribose — a pentose sugar obtained by the hydrolysis of DNA. Formula: C5H10O4
- destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
- diabetology — (medicine) The study of the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
- do your bit — contribute
- dobbs ferry — a town in SE New York.
- dobby weave — a weave with small, geometric patterns
- donnybrooks — Plural form of donnybrook.
- douay bible — an English translation of the Bible, prepared by Roman Catholic scholars from the Vulgate. The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament was published at Douai in 1609–10.
- double demy — a size of printing paper, 22½ × 35 inches (57 × 89 cm).
- double duty — designed to fill two functions: double-duty tools.
- double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
- double-duty — designed to fill two functions: double-duty tools.
- double-dyed — confirmed; inveterate
- doubtlessly — without doubt; certainly; surely; unquestionably.
- drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
- dummy block — a freely moving cylinder for transmitting the pressure of a ram to a piece being extruded.
- embryonated — Containing an embryo.
- emery board — abrasive tool for shaping fingernails
- erodibility — the ability to erode
- exboyfriend — Alternative form of ex-boyfriend.
- flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
- followed by — You use followed by to say what comes after something else in a list or ordered set of things.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
- gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
- granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
- hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
- hobbledehoy — an awkward, ungainly youth.
- holiday job — a temporary job taken by a person during their holidays from school, college or university
- honeycombed — Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.
- hybrid corn — a crossbred corn, especially the grain of corn developed by hybridization of repeatedly self-pollinated, and therefore genetically pure, varieties.
- hybrid rock — an igneous rock formed by molten magma incorporating pre-existing rock through which it passes
- hydroborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several anions containing hydrogen bound to boron, especially the simplest one BH4-; any salt or complex containing such an anion.
- hydrobromic — of or derived from hydrobromic acid.
- hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .