11-letter words containing a, d, i, o
- barbie doll — a teenage doll with numerous sets of clothes and accessories
- base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
- basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
- bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
- bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
- bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
- binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
- birobidzhan — a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
- black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
- bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
- body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
- bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- border raid — an incursion by attackers into a neighbouring country
- braggadocio — vain empty boasting
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bridgeboard — a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers
- broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
- bromic acid — a colourless unstable water-soluble liquid used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: HBrO3
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
- cacodemonic — relating to cacodemons
- caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
- caird coast — a region of Antarctica: a part of Coats Land on the SE coast of the Weddell Sea; now included in the British Antarctic Territory (claim suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959)
- calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
- cannabidiol — (organic compound) A non-psychoactive cannabinoid found in the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.
- cannabinoid — any of the narcotic chemical substances found in cannabin
- cannonading — a continued discharge of cannon, especially during an attack.
- canyon wind — a nocturnal, down-canyon flow of air caused by the cooling of the canyon walls. Compare valley wind.
- caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
- capernoited — capricious
- cappadocian — of or relating to Cappadocia or its inhabitants
- cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
- cardiodynia — pain in the heart region.
- cardiogenic — originating in the heart, or resulting from a disorder of the heart
- cardiograms — Plural form of cardiogram.
- cardiograph — an instrument for recording the mechanical force and form of heart movements
- cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
- cardiomotor — relating to the action of the heart