9-letter words containing a, b, e, d
- boat ride — a ride in a boat
- bobtailed — having the tail cut short
- body wave — Geology. a transverse or longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth (distinguished from surface wave).
- bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
- bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
- boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
- bombarded — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bombarder — a person or thing which bombards
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- bordereau — a memorandum or invoice prepared for a company by an underwriter, containing a list of reinsured risks
- bosberaad — a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- bracketed — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- brake pad — the flat metal casting, together with the bound friction material, in a disc brake
- brand new — entirely new.
- brand-new — A brand-new object is completely new.
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- brandreth — a gridiron, iron trivet, or tripod
- bread bin — A bread bin is a wooden, metal, or plastic container for storing bread.
- breadhead — a person who is overly concerned with money
- breadless — without bread; without food
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- breadroom — a room or compartment where bread is kept, esp on a ship
- breadroot — a leguminous plant, Psoralea esculenta, of central North America, having an edible starchy root
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- breedable — to produce (offspring); procreate; engender.
- bridecake — a wedding cake
- bridemaid — a bridesmaid
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- brigadier — A brigadier is a senior officer who is in charge of a brigade in the British armed forces.
- broadener — a person who broadens something, a device which broadens something
- broadhead — a flat, triangular, steel arrowhead with sharp edges.
- broadleaf — any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
- 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.
- broadside — A broadside is a strong written or spoken attack on a person or institution.
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- broodmare — mare for breeding
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
- buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- buildable — suitable for building on