9-letter words containing o, l, d, n
- blennioid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Blennioidea, a large suborder of small mainly marine spiny-finned fishes having an elongated body with reduced pelvic fins. The group includes the blennies, butterfish, and gunnel
- blindfold — A blindfold is a strip of cloth that is tied over someone's eyes so that they cannot see.
- blindworm — a legless lizard (Anguis fragilis) of the Old World; slowworm: it has very small eyes and a snakelike body that is usually brownish
- blondness — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
- bloodnoun — a bullfrog, especially Rana catesbeiana.
- blow down — to open a valve in a steam boiler to eject any sediment that has collected
- body plan — Biology. the basic shape of members of an animal phylum; the general structure each individual organism assumes as it develops. Compare bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry.
- body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
- boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
- bolt down — fasten, secure sth
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
- 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.
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
- caledonia — Scotland
- call down — to request or invoke
- call-down — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- canoodled — Simple past tense and past participle of canoodle.
- canoodles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canoodle.
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- celloidin — a nitrocellulose compound derived from pyroxylin, used in a solution of alcohol and ether for embedding specimens before cutting sections for microscopy
- chalcedon — ancient Greek city on the Bosporus, opposite Byzantium: site of the 4th ecumenical council, a.d. 451
- chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
- chondrule — one of the small spherical masses of mainly silicate minerals present in chondrites
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- clip bond — a form of brickwork raking bond for a facing of all stretchers, in which the stretchers are tied in to the backing every few courses by diagonally set bricks that project from the backing into angles made by cutting off the concealed corners of the face brick.
- clogdance — a folk dance characterized by heavy stamping steps, performed while wearing clogs
- clonidine — a medication primarily used to treat high blood pressure
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- cloudland — region of dreams, imagination, or impractical speculation; visionary realm
- cnidocils — Plural form of cnidocil.
- coastland — the land fringing a coast
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- cold tone — a bluish or greenish tinge in a black-and-white print.
- colliding — Present participle of collide.
- collodion — a colourless or yellow syrupy liquid that consists of a solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol: used in medicine and in the manufacture of photographic plates, lacquers, etc
- collonade — Alternative spelling of colonnade.
- colluding — to act together through a secret understanding, especially with evil or harmful intent.