9-letter words containing a, b, n, d, e
- bartender — A bartender is a person who serves drinks behind a bar.
- basebands — Plural form of baseband.
- bashed in — crushed or dented from a blow
- bastinade — bastinado.
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bawdiness — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- bayoneted — a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
- be warned — If someone says to you 'be warned', they are advising you to be cautious, because there are risks that you may not have thought about.
- beam wind — a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.
- beam-ends — the ends of a vessel's beams
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- bear down — If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.
- beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- bed-stand — night table.
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- bellyband — a strap around the belly of a draught animal, holding the shafts of a vehicle
- benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
- berdyansk — a city in S Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- bergander — a species of European duck; sheldrake
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- bernhardi — Friedrich A. J. von [free-drikh fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1930, German general.
- bernhardt — Sarah. original name Rosine Bernard. 1844–1923, French actress, regarded as one of the greatest tragic actresses of all time
- bi-endian — Silicon schizophrenia. Processors and other chips that have can be switched to work in big-endian or little-endian mode. The PowerPC chip has this ability, which allows it to run the little-endian Windows NT, or the big-endian Mac OS/PPC.
- bidentate — having two teeth or toothlike parts or processes
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- bin laden — Osama (əʊˈsɑːmə). 1957–2011, Saudi-born leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network: presumed architect of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11 2001. Killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- bladebone — the scapula, or shoulder blade.
- blandness — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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