9-letter words containing d, o, i
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- be rid of — to be freed from or relieved of (something undesirable)
- beholding — to observe; look at; see.
- belemnoid — shaped like a dart
- benzenoid — similar to benzene
- bezoardic — relating to bezoar
- biddeford — a city in SW Maine.
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- big-boned — having bones that are unusually massive
- bigotedly — in a bigoted manner
- billboard — A billboard is a very large board on which posters are displayed.
- bimotored — having two engines.
- bind over — If someone is bound over by a court or a judge, they are given an order and must do as the order says for a particular period of time.
- biodiesel — Biodiesel is fuel made from natural sources such as plant oils, that can be used in diesel engines.
- biofueled — running on biofuel
- biohazard — material of biological origin that is hazardous to humans
- biosolids — semisolid or solid organic material obtained from the recycling of sewage, used esp as a fertilizer
- bioturbed — stirred by organisms
- bird food — a mixture of seeds, grains, nuts, etc, suitable for birds to eat
- bird shot — small-sized shot used for shooting birds.
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- bishopdom — the jurisdiction of a bishop
- blennioid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Blennioidea, a large suborder of small mainly marine spiny-finned fishes having an elongated body with reduced pelvic fins. The group includes the blennies, butterfish, and gunnel
- blindfold — A blindfold is a strip of cloth that is tied over someone's eyes so that they cannot see.
- blindworm — a legless lizard (Anguis fragilis) of the Old World; slowworm: it has very small eyes and a snakelike body that is usually brownish
- bloodlike — resembling blood
- bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boat ride — a ride in a boat
- bobadilla — Francisco de [frahn-thees-kaw th e,, -sees-] /frɑnˈθis kɔ ðɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), died 1502, Spanish colonial governor in the West Indies: sent Columbus back to Spain in chains.
- bobsy-die — fuss; confusion; pandemonium (esp in the phrases kick up bobsy-die, play bobsy-die)
- bobtailed — having the tail cut short
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- bodenheim — Maxwell, 1892–1954, U.S. poet and novelist.
- body hair — hair that grows on the body as opposed to the head or face
- body mike — a microphone attached to the body
- body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
- body-mike — to equip with a body mike: The star was body-miked, but he was still inaudible.
- boieldieu — François Adrien [frahn-swa a-dree-an] /frɑ̃ˈswa a driˈɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1775–1834, French composer.
- boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
- bombycoid — relating to moths of the family Bombycidae
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bonderize — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
- bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
- bonetired — completely exhausted
- 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.
- bordering — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.