11-letter words containing o, l, e, d, b
- double-book — to overbook by accepting more than one reservation for the same hotel room, airplane seat, etc.
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- double-date — to take part in a double date.
- double-deal — to practice double-dealing.
- double-deck — Also, double-decked. having two decks, tiers, or levels: a double-deck bunk; a double-deck bus.
- double-dome — an intellectual; egghead.
- double-duty — designed to fill two functions: double-duty tools.
- double-dyed — confirmed; inveterate
- double-hung — (of a window) having two vertically sliding sashes, each closing a different part of the opening.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-lock — to lock with two turns of a key, so that a second bolt is engaged.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- double-reed — of or relating to wind instruments producing sounds through two reeds fastened and beating together, as the oboe.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
- double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- double-team — to defend against or block (an opposing player) by using two players, as in football or basketball: By double-teaming the end the safety men left the other receiver in the open.
- double-tide — Also called double tide. Oceanography. a high tide in which the water rises to a certain level, recedes, then rises again. a low tide in which the water recedes to a certain level, rises slightly, then recedes again.
- double-time — to cause to move in double time: Double-time the troops to the mess hall.
- double-wide — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- doublecheck — Alternative form of double-check.
- doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- doubled sig — A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- doubletrees — Plural form of doubletree.
- doublewides — Plural form of doublewide.
- doubtlessly — without doubt; certainly; surely; unquestionably.
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- emboldening — Present participle of embolden.
- erodibility — the ability to erode
- followed by — You use followed by to say what comes after something else in a list or ordered set of things.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- full-bodied — of full strength, flavor, richness, etc.: full-bodied wine; full-bodied writing.
- gobble down — eat hungrily
- gold beetle — any of several beetles having a golden luster, as a chrysomelid, Metriona bicolor, that feeds on morning glories and roses.
- gold bronze — an alloy of about 90 percent copper, 5 percent zinc, 3 percent lead, and 2 percent tin.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
- goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- half-boiled — drunk.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.