9-letter words containing a, b, d
- babbitted — Simple past tense and past participle of babbitt.
- babelized — reduced to complete confusion or meaninglessness.
- baby bond — a sum of money invested shortly after the birth of a child, the returns of which may not be collected until the child reaches adulthood
- baby doll — a doll that looks like a baby
- baby food — food, as vegetables, fruits, or meat, puréed or minced for easy ingestion by infants.
- babyfaced — Alternative spelling of baby-faced.
- back dive — a dive in which the diver stands on the springboard with the back to the water and jumps up, arching backward to land either feetfirst facing the springboard or headfirst facing away from the springboard.
- back door — a door at the rear or side of a building
- back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
- back road — A back road is a small country road with very little traffic.
- back yard — an area, usually paved, at the rear of a building
- back-door — secret; furtive; illicit; indirect.
- back-load — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- back-wind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- backbends — Plural form of backbend.
- backboard — In basketball, the backboard is the flat board above each of the baskets.
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- backdated — Put an earlier date to (a document or agreement) than the actual one.
- backdates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backdate.
- backdowns — Plural form of backdown.
- backdraft — an explosive surge in a fire produced by the sudden mixing of air with other combustible gases.
- backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
- backfield — the area behind the line of scrimmage from which the backfield begin each play
- backfired — Simple past tense and past participle of backfire.
- backhands — Plural form of backhand.
- backlands — Plural form of backland.
- backorder — Commerce. an order or part of an order waiting to be filled.
- backpedal — to press backward on the pedals of a bicycle, as to brake
- backroads — Plural form of backroad.
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- backsides — Plural form of backside.
- backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
- backsword — a person who uses the backsword
- backwards — If you move or look backwards, you move or look in the direction that your back is facing.
- backwoods — If you refer to an area as the backwoods, you mean that it is a long way from large towns and is isolated from modern life.
- backwords — Plural form of backword.
- backyards — Plural form of backyard.
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
- bad apple — a person with a corrupting influence
- bad blood — If you say that there is bad blood between people, you mean that they have argued about something and dislike each other.
- bad break — misfortune, period of bad luck
- bad check — A bad check is a check that will not be paid because there is a mistake on it, or because there is not enough money in the account of the person who wrote the check.
- bad faith — intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith)
- bad lands — a deeply eroded barren region of SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad paper — a less-than-honorable discharge from military service.
- bad place — Midland and Southern U.S. hell.
- bad taste — lack of discernment
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.