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11-letter words containing d, o

  • bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
  • body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
  • body colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
  • body combat — a type of fitness programme in which individuals perform non-contact martial arts moves to music
  • body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
  • body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
  • body horror — a horror film genre in which the main feature is the graphically depicted destruction or degeneration of a human body or bodies
  • body lotion — skin lotion for use on the body
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body rhythm — biorhythm.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
  • body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
  • body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
  • bogged down — If you get bogged down in something, it prevents you from making progress or getting something done.
  • bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
  • boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
  • bomb damage — damage to buildings, etc caused by the explosion of a bomb
  • bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
  • bombay duck — a teleost fish, Harpodon nehereus, that resembles and is related to the lizard fishes: family Harpodontidae. It is eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
  • bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
  • bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • bonderizing — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
  • bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • book-ending — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
  • bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
  • bookbinding — Bookbinding is the work of fastening books together and putting covers on them.
  • boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
  • bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
  • border line — boundary line; frontier.
  • border raid — an incursion by attackers into a neighbouring country
  • bored stiff — very bored
  • boric oxide — a colorless crystalline compound, B 2 O 3 , used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.
  • borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
  • bosom buddy — close friend
  • boss around — order about
  • bottle-feed — If you bottle-feed a baby, you give it milk or a liquid like milk in a bottle rather than the baby sucking milk from its mother's breasts.
  • bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
  • bottom lady — a pimp's most reliable prostitute.
  • bottom land — bottom (def 4).
  • boudin noir — a dark-colored boiled sausage made with pork and blood, and often highly spiced
  • boulder dam — Hoover Dam
  • boumedienne — Houari (ˈhaʊərɪ). 1927–78, Algerian statesman and soldier: president of Algeria (1965–78) after overthrowing Ben Bella in a coup
  • bound up in — If something is bound up in a particular form or place, it is fixed in that form or contained in that place.
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