8-letter words containing a, b, d
- backslid — Simple past tense and past participle of backslide.
- backveld — (in South Africa) a remote, sparsely populated, and often primitive area
- backward — A backward movement or look is in the direction that your back is facing. Some people use backwards for this meaning.
- backwind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- backwood — (often used with a singular verb) wooded or partially uncleared and unsettled districts.
- backword — the act or an instance of failing to keep a promise or commitment (esp in the phrase give (someone) backword)
- backyard — A backyard is an area of land at the back of a house.
- bad bank — a financial institution set up to hold and manage underperforming assets owned by other banks
- bad debt — A bad debt is a sum of money that has been lent but is not likely to be repaid.
- bad form — If you say that it is bad form to behave in a particular way, you mean that it is rude and impolite.
- bad luck — You can say 'Bad luck', or 'Hard luck', to someone when you want to express sympathy to them.
- bad news — someone or something regarded as undesirable
- bad seed — a person who is seen as being congenitally disposed to wrongdoing and likely to be a bad influence on others
- bad time — inopportune moment
- bad trip — a mentally or physically horrifying drug-taking experience, as one accompanied by nightmarish hallucinations or by physical pain.
- bad trot — a period of ill fortune
- badalona — a port in NE Spain: an industrial suburb of Barcelona. Pop: 214 440 (2003 est)
- badarian — designating or of a Neolithic culture of Egypt, characterized by cattle-breeding, fine pottery, and a large range of ornaments
- badgered — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badgerer — One who badgers.
- badgerly — resembling a badger
- badigeon — a composition for patching surface defects in carpentry or masonry.
- badinage — Badinage is humorous or light-hearted conversation that often involves teasing someone.
- badlands — any deeply eroded barren area
- badmouth — (informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
- badoglio — Pietro (ˈpjetro). 1871–1956, Italian marshal; premier (1943–44) following Mussolini's downfall: arranged an armistice with the Allies (1943)
- baedeker — any of a series of travel guidebooks issued by the German publisher Karl Baedeker (1801–59) or his firm
- bag lady — A bag lady is a homeless woman who carries her possessions in shopping bags.
- baidarka — a type of narrow hunting boat, similar to a kayak, made of sealskin and used by inhabitants of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands
- bailbond — a document in which a prisoner and one or more sureties guarantee that the prisoner will attend the court hearing of the charge against him if he is released on bail
- baladine — a theatrical dancer or stage buffoon
- balanced — A balanced report, book, or other document takes into account all the different opinions on something and presents information in a fair and reasonable way.
- balanoid — shaped like an acorn.
- baldhead — a person with a bald head
- baldness — having little or no hair on the scalp: a bald head; a bald person.
- baldpate — a person with a bald head
- baldrick — a belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip, supporting a sword, horn, etc.
- baldrics — Plural form of baldric.
- ballader — A writer of ballads.
- ballades — Plural form of ballade.
- balladic — relating to ballads
- balladry — ballad poetry or songs
- balloted — a slip or sheet of paper, cardboard, or the like, on which a voter marks his or her vote.
- ballyard — a baseball ground
- band saw — a power-operated saw consisting of an endless toothed metal band running over and driven by two wheels
- band-aid — A Band-Aid is a small piece of sticky tape that you use to cover small cuts or wounds on your body.
- bandaged — Simple past tense and past participle of bandage.
- bandager — someone who bandages
- bandages — Plural form of bandage.
- bandanas — Plural form of bandana.