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11-letter words containing o, d, i

  • barbie doll — a teenage doll with numerous sets of clothes and accessories
  • base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
  • bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
  • be confined — to be undergoing childbirth
  • be dirty on — to be offended by or be hostile towards
  • bed molding — a molding below a projecting part, esp. between the corona and frieze
  • bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
  • bedding out — the process of planting out young flowering plants in beds
  • behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
  • benediction — A benediction is a kind of Christian prayer.
  • benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
  • bid welcome — to receive with cordial greetings
  • big diomede — See under Diomede Islands.
  • bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
  • billet-doux — a love letter
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
  • bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
  • biomedicine — the medical study of the effects of unusual environmental stress on human beings, esp in connection with space travel
  • biomodeling — the mathematical modeling of biological reactions.
  • bird's-foot — a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus, with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
  • birddogging — the act of pursuing with determination
  • birobidzhan — a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
  • bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
  • black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
  • bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
  • blindfolded — wearing a blindfold
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • blood guilt — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • blood libel — the malicious accusation that Jews used the blood of non-Jews in religious rituals
  • bloodguilty — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • bloodmobile — a motor vehicle equipped for collecting blood from donors
  • bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
  • bobsledding — a sled having two pairs of runners, a brake, and a steering wheel or other mechanism that enables the front rider to direct the sled down a steeply banked run or chute.
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
  • bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
  • 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 fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
  • body lotion — skin lotion for use on the body
  • body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
  • bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
  • bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
  • 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
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