11-letter words containing do
- bent double — If someone is bent double, the top part of their body is leaning forward towards their legs, usually because they are in great pain or because they are laughing a lot. In American English, you can also say that someone is bent over double.
- billet-doux — a love letter
- birddogging — the act of pursuing with determination
- bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
- blood donor — A blood donor is someone who gives some of their blood so that it can be used in operations.
- body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
- bogged down — If you get bogged down in something, it prevents you from making progress or getting something done.
- boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- braggadocio — vain empty boasting
- broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
- bronze dore — ormolu (def 2).
- bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
- bulldogging — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
- button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
- button-down — A button-down shirt or a shirt with a button-down collar has a button under each end of the collar which you can fasten.
- cape doctor — a strong fresh SE wind blowing in the vicinity of Cape Town, esp in the summer
- cappadocian — of or relating to Cappadocia or its inhabitants
- cardophagus — a donkey
- cassiodorus — Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ˈfleɪvɪəs ˈmæɡnəs ɔːˈriːlɪəs). ?490–?585 ad, Roman statesman, writer, and monk; author of Variae, a collection of official documents written for the Ostrogoths
- cat-and-dog — continuously or unceasingly vicious and destructive: cat-and-dog competition.
- centred dot — a heavy dot (·) used to draw attention to a particular paragraph
- cerro gordo — a mountain pass in E Mexico, between Veracruz and Jalapa: site of a battle in the Mexican War (1847) in which American forces under General Scott decisively defeated the Mexicans
- chalcedonic — Of or pertaining to chalcedony.
- chalcedonyx — a variety of chalcedony characterized by alternate stripes of black and white
- chamaedorea — any of various small, slender palms of the genus Chamaedorea, several species of which are cultivated as houseplants.
- change down — When you change down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
- chardonnays — Plural form of chardonnay.
- chindonesia — China, India, and Indonesia: seen collectively as the most important developing economies with the best growth markets for investors
- choledochal — Related to the bile duct.
- chordophone — any musical instrument producing sounds through the vibration of strings, such as the piano, harp, violin, or guitar
- chordotonal — (of an insect) responsive to sound vibrations, as certain organs or parts.
- christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
- chrome dome — a baldheaded person.
- chrome-dome — a baldheaded person.
- cladocerans — Plural form of cladoceran.
- cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
- cladoptosis — the annual shedding of twigs or branches instead of leaves, as in certain cypresses.
- clopidogrel — An oral antiplatelet agent used to inhibit blood clots in coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, having the chemical formula C16H16ClNO2S.
- closed door — held in strict privacy; not open to the press or the public: a closed-door strategy meeting of banking executives.
- closed-door — private; barred to members of the public
- cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
- cnidogenous — producing or containing nematocysts.
- codominance — Ecology. being one of two or more species that are equally dominant in a biotic community: a forest in which oak and hickory are codominant.
- coloradoite — a mineral, mercury telluride, HgTe, occurring in the form of grayish-black masses.
- comedogenic — producing or causing blackheads or acne
- computerdom — the computer industry