9-letter words containing a, b, d, n
- bondwoman — a female serf or slave
- bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brand new — entirely new.
- brand-new — A brand-new object is completely new.
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- brandreth — a gridiron, iron trivet, or tripod
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- bread bin — A bread bin is a wooden, metal, or plastic container for storing bread.
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- brigading — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- broadband — Broadband is a method of sending many electronic messages at the same time, using a wide range of frequencies.
- broadener — a person who broadens something, a device which broadens something
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- bundaberg — a town in E Australia, near the E coast of Queensland: centre of a sugar-growing area, with a nearby deep-water port. Pop: 44 556 (2001)
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
- butenandt — Adolf Frederick Johann. 1903–95, German organic chemist. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1939) for his pioneering work on sex hormones
- by and by — presently or eventually
- by-and-by — the future: to meet in the sweet by-and-by.
- byrd land — a part of Antarctica, east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea: claimed for the US by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1929, though all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- cab stand — A cab stand is a place where taxis wait for passengers, for example, at an airport or outside a station.
- cabstands — Plural form of cabstand.
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- candy bar — A candy bar is a long, thin, sweet food, usually covered in chocolate.
- carbonade — a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer
- carbonado — a piece of meat, fish, etc, scored and grilled
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- cediranib — A potent inhibitor of VEGF receptor tyrosine kinases, under development as a possible anticancer drug.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- confabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of confab.
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer