10-letter words containing o, l, d
- bardolator — (usually, pejorative) One who loves or worships the works of William Shakespeare.
- bardolatry — idolatry or excessive admiration of William Shakespeare
- barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
- basal body — a cylindrical organelle, within the cytoplasm of flagellated and ciliated cells, that contains microtubules and forms the base of a flagellum or cilium: identical in internal structure to a centriole.
- basutoland — Lesotho
- battledore — an ancient racket game
- beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
- bedclothes — Bedclothes are the sheets and covers which you put over yourself when you get into bed.
- bedfellows — Plural form of bedfellow.
- bedlington — Also called Bedlingtonshire [bed-ling-tuh n-sheer, -sher] /ˈbɛd lɪŋ tənˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). an urban area in E Northumberland, in N England.
- beflowered — adorned or decorated with flowers.
- belladonna — either of two alkaloid drugs, atropine or hyoscyamine, obtained from the leaves and roots of the deadly nightshade
- bellyboard — a small surfboard, usually 3–4 feet (0.9–1.2 meters) long, for riding waves on one's belly, sometimes used in conjunction with swim fins.
- belowdecks — below a ship's deck
- ben lomond — a mountain in W central Scotland, on the E side of Loch Lomond. Height: 973 m (3192 ft)
- besottedly — in a besotted manner
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bidonville — a shanty town
- bifluoride — an acid salt of hydrofluoric acid containing the group HF 2 -, as ammonium bifluoride, NH 4 HF 2.
- billfolder — billfold.
- bimodality — the state of being bimodal
- bio-diesel — Bio-diesel is diesel fuel made from biological or natural sources.
- biofuelled — running on biofuel
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
- black body — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- black code — any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
- black gold — petroleum
- black mold — any fungus of the family Mucoraceae, especially Rhizopus nigricans, that forms a black, furry coating on foodstuffs.
- blackboard — A blackboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Blackboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- bladderpod — any of several plants belonging to the genera Alyssoides and Lesquerella, of the mustard family, having inflated seed pods.
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- blastodisk — germinal disk
- blind copy — a copy of a letter or the like, the original of which bears no evidence that the copy was sent to some other person.
- blind door — a door having louvers permitting circulation of air.
- blind hole — a hole whose green cannot be seen by the approaching golfer because of trees or other obstructions.
- blind spot — If you say that someone has a blind spot about something, you mean that they seem to be unable to understand it or to see how important it is.
- blind-spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- blind-worm — a limbless European lizard, Anguis fragilis, related to the glass lizards.
- blindstory — a windowless story
- blockboard — a type of plywood in which soft wood strips are bonded together and sandwiched between two layers of veneer
- blood bank — A blood bank is a place where blood which has been taken from blood donors is stored until it is needed for people in hospital.
- blood bath — a killing of many people; massacre
- blood cell — any of the cells that circulate in the blood
- blood clot — a clotted mass of blood
- blood feud — A blood feud is a long-lasting, bitter disagreement between two or more groups of people, particularly family groups. Blood feuds often involve members of each group murdering or fighting with members of the other.
- blood flow — the flow of blood through blood vessels around the body
- blood heat — Blood heat is a temperature of 37°C, which is about the same as the normal temperature of the human body.
- blood knot — barrel knot.