8-letter words containing a, b, e, d
- backdate — If a document or an arrangement is backdated, it is valid from a date before the date when it is completed or signed.
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- backread — (Internet, slang, especially in IRC) To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
- backside — Your backside is the part of your body that you sit on.
- backveld — (in South Africa) a remote, sparsely populated, and often primitive area
- bad debt — A bad debt is a sum of money that has been lent but is not likely to be repaid.
- 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
- 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.
- baedeker — any of a series of travel guidebooks issued by the German publisher Karl Baedeker (1801–59) or his firm
- 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.
- 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
- ballader — A writer of ballads.
- ballades — Plural form of ballade.
- balloted — a slip or sheet of paper, cardboard, or the like, on which a voter marks his or her vote.
- bandaged — Simple past tense and past participle of bandage.
- bandager — someone who bandages
- bandages — Plural form of bandage.
- bandeaux — Plural form of bandeau.
- bandeira — an expedition in search of gold or slaves
- bandelet — a small band of any kind, particularly one worn around the head
- bandello — Matteo [maht-te-aw] /mɑtˈtɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1485–1561, Italian ecclesiastic and author.
- banderol — Alternative form of banderole.
- bandfile — to file with a file band on a band mill or band saw.
- bandmate — a fellow member of a band
- bandoeng — Bandung.
- bandores — Plural form of bandore.
- bandsmen — Plural form of bandsman.
- bandster — a person who goes behind a reaper and binds sheaves of wheat
- banished — Simple past tense and past participle of banish.
- banjaxed — destroyed or ruined
- bankhead — Tallulah (Brockman). 1902–68, US stage and film actress; her successes included the plays The Little Foxes (1939) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)
- bankside — the sloping side of any bank
- bannered — Decorated with a banner or banners.
- banstead — a town in S England, in NE Surrey. Pop: 19 332 (2001)
- bantered — Simple past tense and past participle of banter.
- 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.
- bar code — A bar code is an arrangement of numbers and parallel lines that is printed on products to be sold in shops. The bar code can be read by computers.
- barbered — Simple past tense and past participle of barber.
- barcoded — having a barcode
- barehand — to field (the ball) with one's bare hands rather than one's glove