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11-letter words containing d, o, b

  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • buddy movie — a genre of film dealing with the relationship and adventures of two friends
  • buenos dias — good day; good morning
  • build up to — If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually.
  • bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
  • bulldogging — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
  • bullet wood — the wood of a bully tree.
  • bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
  • bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
  • butenedioic — designating a type of acid
  • button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
  • button-down — A button-down shirt or a shirt with a button-down collar has a button under each end of the collar which you can fasten.
  • buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
  • buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
  • buttonmould — the small core of plastic, wood, or metal that is the base for buttons covered with fabric, leather, etc
  • 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
  • cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
  • cable modem — (communications, hardware)   A type of modem that allows people to access the Internet via their cable television service. A cable modem can transfer data at 500 kbps or higher, compared with 28.8 kbps for common telephone line modems, but the actual transfer rates may be lower depending on the number of other simultaneous users on the same cable. Industry pundits often point out that the cable system still does not have the bandwidth or service level in many areas to make this feasible. For example, it has to be capable of two-way communication. See also: DOCSIS.
  • cannabidiol — (organic compound) A non-psychoactive cannabinoid found in the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.
  • cannabinoid — any of the narcotic chemical substances found in cannabin
  • carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
  • carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
  • carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
  • centerboard — a movable board or metal plate that, when lowered through a slot in the floor of a shallow-draft sailboat, functions like a keel to reduce leeward drift or increase stability, esp. one that moves on a pivot
  • centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
  • cerebroside — any glycolipid in which N-acyl sphingosine is combined with glucose or galactose: occurs in the myelin sheaths of nerves
  • chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
  • charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
  • cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
  • chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
  • chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
  • chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
  • child labor — the regular, full-time employment of children under a legally defined age in factories, stores, offices, etc.: in the U.S., the minimum legal age under federal law is 16 (in hazardous occupations, 18)
  • cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
  • clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
  • closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
  • cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
  • cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
  • club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
  • cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
  • code number — a number used to identify something
  • codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
  • cohabitated — cohabit.
  • cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
  • cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
  • coldblooded — having a body temperature that fluctuates, approximating that of the surrounding air, land, or water
  • color-blind — Someone who is color-blind cannot see the difference between colors, especially between red and green.
  • colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
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