10-letter words containing o, l, d
- blood lily — any of various bulbous plants of the genus Haemanthus, native to Africa, having clusters of red or white flowers.
- blood loss — loss of blood through bleeding
- blood lust — If you say that someone is driven by a blood lust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
- blood meal — the dried blood of animals used as a fertilizer, diet supplement for livestock, or deer repellent.
- blood test — A blood test is a medical examination of a small amount of your blood.
- blood type — Someone's blood type is the same as their blood group.
- blood work — a blood test or blood tests collectively.
- bloodguilt — guilt of murder or shedding blood
- bloodhound — A bloodhound is a large dog with a very good sense of smell. Bloodhounds are often used to find people or other animals by following their scent.
- bloodiness — the state of being bloody
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- bloodstock — Horses that are bred for racing are referred to as bloodstock.
- bloodstone — a dark-green variety of chalcedony with red spots: used as a gemstone
- bloomfield — Leonard. 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933)
- blow dryer — a handheld hair dryer
- blow-dried — dried using hairdryer
- blow-dryer — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance that dries hair by emitting a stream of warm air.
- bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- blue blood — If you say that someone has blue blood, you mean that they are from a family that has a high social rank.
- blue mould — any fungus of the genus Penicillium that forms a bluish mass on decaying food, leather, etc
- board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
- boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
- bobblehead — a collectable doll with a bobbing oversized head representing a celebrity or a cartoon character
- bobsledder — a person who bobsleds
- bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
- body clock — Your body clock is the internal biological mechanism which causes your body to automatically behave in particular ways at particular times of the day.
- body fluid — any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
- boiled egg — an egg cooked in its shell in boiling water
- boiled oil — any of several oils, esp. linseed, that are heated (not boiled) and mixed with driers to form a thick, dark, quick-drying oil
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- boldrewood — Rolf, real name Thomas Alexander Browne. 1826–1915, Australian writer, born in the UK, noted for his novels of the Australian outback, esp Robbery Under Arms (1882–3)
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- bondholder — A bondholder is a person who owns one or more investment bonds.
- boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
- bootlegged — made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.
- borderless — without a band or margin around or along the edge
- borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- bottlehead — bottlenose (def 2).
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bow-legged — outward curvature of the legs causing a separation of the knees when the ankles are close or in contact.
- bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.