9-letter words containing s, o, d
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- beasthood — the state of beasts, the condition of being a beast
- bed stone — the fixed lower member of a pair of millstones. Compare runner (def 12).
- bedcovers — Plural form of bedcover.
- bedehouse — beadhouse
- beresford — Bruce. born 1940, Australian film director. His films include The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972), Breaker Morant (1980), Driving Miss Daisy (1989) and Evelyn (2002)
- biodiesel — Biodiesel is fuel made from natural sources such as plant oils, that can be used in diesel engines.
- biosolids — semisolid or solid organic material obtained from the recycling of sewage, used esp as a fertilizer
- bird shot — small-sized shot used for shooting birds.
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- bishopdom — the jurisdiction of a bishop
- blondness — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- blood gas — a gas, as oxygen or carbon dioxide, that is dissolved in plasma.
- bloodless — A bloodless coup or victory is one in which nobody is killed.
- bloodlust — If you say that someone is driven by a bloodlust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
- bloodshed — Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded.
- bloodshot — If your eyes are bloodshot, the parts that are usually white are red or pink. Your eyes can be bloodshot for a variety of reasons, for example because you are tired or you have drunk too much alcohol.
- bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
- blossomed — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
- bobsy-die — fuss; confusion; pandemonium (esp in the phrases kick up bobsy-die, play bobsy-die)
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- body mass — the ratio of a person's weight to their height
- body shop — a place where the bodywork of motor vehicles is built or repaired
- body slam — a wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and hurled to the mat, landing on his or her back.
- body-slam — to lift and throw (someone) to the ground, as in wrestling
- body-surf — to ride a wave by lying on it without a surfboard
- bodyshell — the external shell of a motor vehicle
- bogorodsk — former name of Noginsk.
- bolstered — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bondstone — a long stone or brick laid in a wall as a header
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- boondocks — If you say that someone lives in the boondocks, you mean that they live a long way from any large cities.
- boot disk — (operating system) The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- bosberaad — a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
- boskopoid — of, relating to, or characteristic of Boskop man or the culture or habitat of Boskop man.
- boss-eyed — having a squint
- boundless — If you describe something as boundless, you mean that there seems to be no end or limit to it.
- boundness — the quality of being bound or obligated
- bow doors — the doors in the bow of a ferry, which open for vehicles to drive on and off
- broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- broadside — A broadside is a strong written or spoken attack on a person or institution.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- broodless — with no brood
- brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
- bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
- burdenous — burdensome