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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
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