9-letter words containing b, o, d, i
- 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
- blennioid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Blennioidea, a large suborder of small mainly marine spiny-finned fishes having an elongated body with reduced pelvic fins. The group includes the blennies, butterfish, and gunnel
- blindfold — A blindfold is a strip of cloth that is tied over someone's eyes so that they cannot see.
- blindworm — a legless lizard (Anguis fragilis) of the Old World; slowworm: it has very small eyes and a snakelike body that is usually brownish
- bloodlike — resembling blood
- bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boat ride — a ride in a boat
- bobadilla — Francisco de [frahn-thees-kaw th e,, -sees-] /frɑnˈθis kɔ ðɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), died 1502, Spanish colonial governor in the West Indies: sent Columbus back to Spain in chains.
- bobsy-die — fuss; confusion; pandemonium (esp in the phrases kick up bobsy-die, play bobsy-die)
- bobtailed — having the tail cut short
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- bodenheim — Maxwell, 1892–1954, U.S. poet and novelist.
- body hair — hair that grows on the body as opposed to the head or face
- body mike — a microphone attached to the body
- body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
- body-mike — to equip with a body mike: The star was body-miked, but he was still inaudible.
- boieldieu — François Adrien [frahn-swa a-dree-an] /frɑ̃ˈswa a driˈɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1775–1834, French composer.
- boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
- bombycoid — relating to moths of the family Bombycidae
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bonderize — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
- bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
- bonetired — completely exhausted
- 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.
- bordering — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
- boskopoid — of, relating to, or characteristic of Boskop man or the culture or habitat of Boskop man.
- bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
- bowerbird — any of various songbirds of the family Ptilonorhynchidae, of Australia and New Guinea. The males build bower-like display grounds in the breeding season to attract the females
- boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- briarwood — any of several woods used to make tobacco pipes
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brierwood — brierroot
- bringdown — a disappointment
- broadbill — any passerine bird of the family Eurylaimidae, of tropical Africa and Asia, having bright plumage and a short wide bill
- broadbrim — a broad-brimmed hat, esp one worn by the Quakers in the 17th century
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- broadside — A broadside is a strong written or spoken attack on a person or institution.
- broadtail — the highly valued black wavy fur obtained from the skins of newly born karakul lambs; caracul
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- broderick — a male given name.
- broiderer — an embroiderer
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- bromfield — Louis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
- browridge — the ridge of bone over the eye sockets