9-letter words containing o, b, d
- booked up — If a hotel, restaurant, theatre, or transport service is booked up, it has no rooms, tables, or tickets left for a time or date.
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- boondocks — If you say that someone lives in the boondocks, you mean that they live a long way from any large cities.
- boot disk — (operating system) The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
- boothroyd — Betty. Baroness. born 1929, British politician; speaker of the House of Commons (1992–2000)
- boozed-up — intoxicated; drunk
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- border on — If you talk about a characteristic or situation bordering on something, usually something that you consider bad, you mean that it is almost that thing.
- bordereau — a memorandum or invoice prepared for a company by an underwriter, containing a list of reinsured risks
- bordering — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
- bosberaad — a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
- boskopoid — of, relating to, or characteristic of Boskop man or the culture or habitat of Boskop man.
- boss-eyed — having a squint
- botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
- boulderer — a rock climber
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- bound for — going or intending to go; on the way to; destined (usually followed by for): The train is bound for Denver.
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- boundedly — having bounds or limits.
- boundless — If you describe something as boundless, you mean that there seems to be no end or limit to it.
- boundness — the quality of being bound or obligated
- bountyhed — the quality of being bounteous
- bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
- bow doors — the doors in the bow of a ferry, which open for vehicles to drive on and off
- bowerbird — any of various songbirds of the family Ptilonorhynchidae, of Australia and New Guinea. The males build bower-like display grounds in the breeding season to attract the females
- bowlegged — having bowlegs
- box elder — a medium-sized fast-growing widely cultivated North American maple, Acer negundo, which has compound leaves with lobed leaflets
- boxed out — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
- boxholder — a person who has rented or subscribed for a box, as at a theatrical performance, sporting event, or the like.
- boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- breadroom — a room or compartment where bread is kept, esp on a ship
- breadroot — a leguminous plant, Psoralea esculenta, of central North America, having an edible starchy root
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- brentwood — a residential town in SE England, in SW Essex near London. Pop: 47 593 (2001)
- briarwood — any of several woods used to make tobacco pipes
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brierwood — brierroot
- bringdown — a disappointment
- broadband — Broadband is a method of sending many electronic messages at the same time, using a wide range of frequencies.
- broadbill — any passerine bird of the family Eurylaimidae, of tropical Africa and Asia, having bright plumage and a short wide bill
- broadbrim — a broad-brimmed hat, esp one worn by the Quakers in the 17th century
- broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
- broadener — a person who broadens something, a device which broadens something
- broadhead — a flat, triangular, steel arrowhead with sharp edges.
- broadleaf — any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- broadloom — of or designating carpets or carpeting woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams