11-letter words containing o, b, d
- colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
- combat duty — active service
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- comedy club — a club where stand-up comedians perform
- commandable — able to be commanded
- commendable — If you describe someone's behaviour as commendable, you approve of it or are praising it.
- commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
- comorbidity — the occurrence of more than one illness or condition at the same time
- concludable — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- condemnable — to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicate strong disapproval of; censure.
- condensable — capable of being condensed.
- condensible — capable of being condensed.
- conductible — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- conglobated — in the form of a globe or ball
- 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.
- cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
- corned beef — Corned beef is beef which has been cooked and preserved in salt water.
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
- coupon bond — a bond, usually a bearer bond, that pays interest by means of coupons with specific cash values.
- cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- cross-breed — If one species of animal or plant cross-breeds with another, they reproduce, and new or different animals or plants are produced. You can also say that someone cross-breeds something such as an animal or plant.
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
- crossbedded — having layers of rock oblique or transverse to the main beds of stratified rock
- crossbreeds — Plural form of crossbreed.
- crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
- cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
- currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
- daggerboard — a light bladelike board inserted into the water through a slot in the keel of a boat to reduce keeling and leeway
- daimyo bond — a bearer bond issued in Japan and the eurobond market by the World Bank
- 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.
- day boarder — a child attending a boarding school who has meals at the school but sleeps at home
- day laborer — an unskilled worker paid by the day
- 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.
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- deal a blow — If an event deals a blow to something or someone, it causes them great difficulties or makes failure more likely.
- dealing box — a box that holds a deck or decks of cards, allowing them to be dealt only one at a time, often used in casino games such as blackjack or chemin de fer.
- 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)
- decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
- delagoa bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean, in S Mozambique
- 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