9-letter words containing a, b, d, n
- bareboned — short of resources
- bargained — Simple past tense and past participle of bargain.
- barn door — an adjustable flap over the front of a studio or theatre lamp
- barnacled — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- barnboard — barnwood.
- barnyards — Plural form of barnyard.
- bartended — Simple past tense and past participle of bartend.
- bartender — A bartender is a person who serves drinks behind a bar.
- basebands — Plural form of baseband.
- bashed in — crushed or dented from a blow
- bastinade — bastinado.
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bawdiness — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- bayoneted — a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
- be warned — If someone says to you 'be warned', they are advising you to be cautious, because there are risks that you may not have thought about.
- beam wind — a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.
- beam-ends — the ends of a vessel's beams
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- bear down — If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.
- beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- bed-stand — night table.
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- bellyband — a strap around the belly of a draught animal, holding the shafts of a vehicle
- benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
- berdyansk — a city in S Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- bergander — a species of European duck; sheldrake
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- bernhardi — Friedrich A. J. von [free-drikh fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1930, German general.
- bernhardt — Sarah. original name Rosine Bernard. 1844–1923, French actress, regarded as one of the greatest tragic actresses of all time
- bi-endian — Silicon schizophrenia. Processors and other chips that have can be switched to work in big-endian or little-endian mode. The PowerPC chip has this ability, which allows it to run the little-endian Windows NT, or the big-endian Mac OS/PPC.
- bidentate — having two teeth or toothlike parts or processes
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- bin laden — Osama (əʊˈsɑːmə). 1957–2011, Saudi-born leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network: presumed architect of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11 2001. Killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
- bird band — a band put on a bird's leg to identify it for observations about its range, behavior, longevity, migration patterns, etc.
- birdbrain — a foolish or unintelligent person
- blackband — a type of iron carbonate
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- blackland — an area of dark peaty soil
- bladebone — the scapula, or shoulder blade.
- bland out — to become bland
- blandness — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
- boarhound — a hound used to chase boar
- body plan — Biology. the basic shape of members of an animal phylum; the general structure each individual organism assumes as it develops. Compare bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry.
- bombardon — a brass instrument of the tuba type, similar to a sousaphone
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.