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10-letter words containing d, o

  • blood knot — barrel knot.
  • blood lily — any of various bulbous plants of the genus Haemanthus, native to Africa, having clusters of red or white flowers.
  • blood loss — loss of blood through bleeding
  • blood lust — If you say that someone is driven by a blood lust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
  • blood meal — the dried blood of animals used as a fertilizer, diet supplement for livestock, or deer repellent.
  • blood test — A blood test is a medical examination of a small amount of your blood.
  • blood type — Someone's blood type is the same as their blood group.
  • blood work — a blood test or blood tests collectively.
  • bloodguilt — guilt of murder or shedding blood
  • bloodhound — A bloodhound is a large dog with a very good sense of smell. Bloodhounds are often used to find people or other animals by following their scent.
  • bloodiness — the state of being bloody
  • bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
  • bloodstock — Horses that are bred for racing are referred to as bloodstock.
  • bloodstone — a dark-green variety of chalcedony with red spots: used as a gemstone
  • bloomfield — Leonard. 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933)
  • blow dryer — a handheld hair dryer
  • blow-dried — dried using hairdryer
  • blow-dryer — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance that dries hair by emitting a stream of warm air.
  • bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • blue blood — If you say that someone has blue blood, you mean that they are from a family that has a high social rank.
  • blue mould — any fungus of the genus Penicillium that forms a bluish mass on decaying food, leather, etc
  • board foot — a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick
  • board game — A board game is a game such as chess or backgammon, which people play by moving small objects around on a board.
  • board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
  • board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
  • boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
  • boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
  • bobblehead — a collectable doll with a bobbing oversized head representing a celebrity or a cartoon character
  • bobsledder — a person who bobsleds
  • bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
  • bodhi tree — the sacred peepul at Buddh Gaya under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha
  • body armor — Body armor is special protective clothing that people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • body check — the fair block of an opponent who has the puck by bumping with the body, shoulder to hip, from the front or side
  • body clock — Your body clock is the internal biological mechanism which causes your body to automatically behave in particular ways at particular times of the day.
  • body count — the number of people killed
  • body fluid — any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.
  • body forth — to give shape or form to
  • body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
  • body louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • body odour — Body odour is an unpleasant smell caused by sweat on a person's body.
  • body press — a hold in which a wrestler places full body weight on a supine opponent in trying to pin the opponent's shoulders to the mat.
  • body punch — a blow to the body of an opponent
  • body scrub — a product designed to exfoliate the skin
  • body shirt — a close-fitting shirt or blouse having a shape and seams that follow the contours of the body.
  • body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
  • bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
  • bodyworker — a person involved in the building or repair of bodywork
  • bog orchid — an orchid, Hammarbya (or Malaxis) paludosa, growing in sphagnum bogs in the N hemisphere. It has greenish-yellow flowers and its leaves bear a fringe of tiny bulbils
  • bohemond i — ?1056–?1111, prince of Antioch (1099–1111); a leader of the first crusade, he helped to capture Antioch (1098)
  • bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
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