11-letter words containing d, o
- biomodeling — the mathematical modeling of biological reactions.
- bird's-foot — a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus, with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
- birddogging — the act of pursuing with determination
- birobidzhan — a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
- bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- black goods — electronic goods which are housed in black or dark casings, such as televisions, CD players, etc
- black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
- blindfolded — wearing a blindfold
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- block chord — a two-handed chord played usually in the middle range of the piano with the left hand duplicating or complementing the right-hand notes.
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- blood count — Your blood count is the number of red and white cells in your blood. A blood count can also refer to a medical examination which determines the number of red and white cells in your blood.
- blood donor — A blood donor is someone who gives some of their blood so that it can be used in operations.
- blood fluke — any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea
- blood group — Someone's blood group is the type of blood that they have in their body. There are four main types: A, B, AB, and O.
- blood guilt — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
- blood level — the amount of a substance, as cholesterol, alcohol, or triglycerides, circulating in the bloodstream: often expressed as a percent or in milligrams or micrograms per deciliter of blood.
- blood libel — the malicious accusation that Jews used the blood of non-Jews in religious rituals
- blood money — If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation.
- blood purge — the mass execution, especially by a government, of persons considered guilty of treason or sedition.
- blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- blood sport — Blood sports are sports such as hunting in which animals are killed.
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
- blood-caked — caked with blood
- bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
- bloodguilty — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
- bloodletter — someone or something which lets blood
- bloodmobile — a motor vehicle equipped for collecting blood from donors
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- bloody flux — dysentery.
- bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
- blow-molded — (of plastic hollowware) made by blowing and shaping in a mold; mold-blown.
- bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- bobsledding — a sled having two pairs of runners, a brake, and a steering wheel or other mechanism that enables the front rider to direct the sled down a steeply banked run or chute.
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- bodgo gegen — a former Buddhist leader of the Mongols.
- bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism