11-letter words containing o, b, d, t
- contrabands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contraband.
- contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
- dative bond — coordinate bond
- dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.
- db2 catalog — (database) An IBM DB2 system table listing all objects in a database installation including hosts, servers, databases, tables and many more. Commands are provided to manage the catalog, e.g. db2 catalog database mydatabase on /databases/mydatabase to add a database reference.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
- deliberator — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.
- demibastion — half a bastion, having only one flank, at right angles to the wall
- demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- dentolabial — (phonetics) articulated with the upper lip and lower teeth.
- denver boot — A Denver boot is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The driver has to pay to have the device removed.
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
- diabetology — (medicine) The study of the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
- disentombed — Simple past tense and past participle of disentomb.
- disobedient — neglecting or refusing to obey; not submitting; refractory.
- distributor — a person or thing that distributes.
- diving boat — a boat used as a tender for divers or others working under water.
- do your bit — contribute
- dobos torte — a rich cake having many thin layers of sponge cake with creamy mocha filling and a caramel glaze on top
- dog biscuit — a hard biscuit for dogs, usually containing ground meat, bones, etc.
- doorbusters — Plural form of doorbuster.
- double coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
- double date — two couples meeting socially
- double duty — designed to fill two functions: double-duty tools.
- double flat — a symbol () that lowers the pitch of the note following it by two semitones.
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
- double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- double tide — agger (def 1).
- double time — a doubled wage rate, paid for working on public holidays, etc
- double-date — to take part in a double date.
- double-duty — designed to fill two functions: double-duty tools.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
- double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- double-team — to defend against or block (an opposing player) by using two players, as in football or basketball: By double-teaming the end the safety men left the other receiver in the open.
- double-tide — Also called double tide. Oceanography. a high tide in which the water rises to a certain level, recedes, then rises again. a low tide in which the water recedes to a certain level, rises slightly, then recedes again.