9-letter words containing l, d, o
- bandolier — a soldier's broad shoulder belt having small pockets or loops for cartridges
- bandoline — a glutinous hair dressing, used (esp formerly) to keep the hair in place
- baracaldo — city in The Basque Country, N Spain: pop. 105,000
- bardolino — a light dry red wine produced around Verona in NE Italy
- bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty
- base load — the more or less constant part of the total load on an electrical power-supply system
- beadledom — petty officialdom
- beclouded — Simple past tense and past participle of becloud.
- bedfellow — You refer to two things or people as bedfellows when they have become associated or related in some way.
- begoggled — wearing goggles
- beholding — to observe; look at; see.
- belemnoid — shaped like a dart
- bell toad — a frog, Ascaphus truei, of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent Canada, the male of which has its cloaca modified into a taillike copulatory organ.
- belt down — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bigotedly — in a bigoted manner
- billboard — A billboard is a very large board on which posters are displayed.
- biodiesel — Biodiesel is fuel made from natural sources such as plant oils, that can be used in diesel engines.
- biofueled — running on biofuel
- biosolids — semisolid or solid organic material obtained from the recycling of sewage, used esp as a fertilizer
- black dog — depression or melancholy
- black rod — (in Britain) an officer of the House of Lords and of the Order of the Garter, whose main duty is summoning the Commons at the opening and proroguing of Parliament
- blackbody — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- blackwood — a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon, having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber
- bladebone — the scapula, or shoulder blade.
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- bland out — to become bland
- bleed out — to die as a result of losing blood through an unattended wound
- 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
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- blockhead — a stupid person
- 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.
- blood red — of the deep-red color of blood: a fiery, blood-red sunset.
- blood-red — Something that is blood-red is bright red in colour.
- bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
- bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
- bloodless — A bloodless coup or victory is one in which nobody is killed.
- 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.
- 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.
- bloodnoun — a bullfrog, especially Rana catesbeiana.
- bloodroot — a North American papaveraceous plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, having a single whitish flower and a fleshy red root that yields a red dye
- 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.
- bloodwood — any of several species of Australian eucalyptus that exude a red sap
- bloodworm — the red wormlike aquatic larva of the midge, Chironomus plumosus, which lives at the bottom of stagnant pools and ditches
- bloodwort — a name given to a number of plants which have red leaves or roots, or which are popularly considered either to draw blood or to reduce bleeding