8-letter words containing a, b, d, i
- bandeira — an expedition in search of gold or slaves
- bandfile — to file with a file band on a band mill or band saw.
- bandfish — a Mediterranean fish with an elongated body
- bandhani — A style of tie-dyeing practised in parts of India.
- banditry — Banditry is used to refer to acts of robbery and violence in areas where the rule of law has broken down.
- banditti — a robber, especially a member of a gang or marauding band.
- bandying — to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
- banished — Simple past tense and past participle of banish.
- bankside — the sloping side of any bank
- baptised — to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism: They baptized the new baby.
- baptized — Simple past tense and past participle of baptize.
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- bardship — the office or state of being a bard
- barred i — a high central vowel with phonetic quality approximating that of the vowels in pit, put, putt, or pet, and considered by most phonologists as a phonetic variant of one of these vowels, depending on the context, but by some as an autonomous phoneme in some varieties of English.
- barriada — a shantytown section on the outskirts of a large city in Latin America.
- basidium — the structure, produced by basidiomycetous fungi after sexual reproduction, in which spores are formed at the tips of projecting slender stalks
- basified — Simple past tense and past participle of basify.
- basilard — a medieval dagger having a tapering blade with straight transverse quillons and a T -shaped pommel.
- basildon — a town in SE England, in S Essex: designated a new town in 1955. Pop: 99 876 (2001)
- bastides — Plural form of bastide.
- baudekin — baldachin
- baudouin — 1930-93; king of Belgium (1951-93): son of Leopold III
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- beadlike — resembling a bead
- bearding — the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- bediaper — to put a nappy on
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- bedsonia — a former name for the genus of bacteria now called Chlamydia
- biasedly — in a biased manner
- bicaudal — having two tails
- bid fair — to seem probable
- biddable — having sufficient value to be bid on, as a hand or suit at bridge
- bidental — a sacred place where lightning has struck
- big band — A big band is a large group of musicians who play jazz or dance music. Big bands were especially popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.
- big data — Big data is extremely large amounts of information that can only be used with special computers.
- big deal — If you say that something is a big deal, you mean that it is important or significant in some way.
- big head — If you describe someone as a big head, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
- big idea — any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
- big road — a main road or highway.
- bigarade — a Seville orange
- bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
- billhead — a printed form for making out bills
- billiard — of or relating to billiards
- bin card — an index card in or affixed to a bin identifying its contents
- bindable — capable of being tied by a rope
- biocidal — destructive of living organisms
- biodrama — a drama based on the life of an actual person or persons.
- biradial — showing both bilateral and radial symmetry, as certain sea anemones
- birdbath — a small basin or trough for birds to bathe in, usually in a garden