9-letter words containing a, b, o, d, e
- beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- bed board — a thin, stiff board placed on a bed under the mattress to lend added support for the body
- beef road — a road used for transporting cattle
- beggardom — beggary (def 2).
- bell toad — a frog, Ascaphus truei, of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent Canada, the male of which has its cloaca modified into a taillike copulatory organ.
- bezoardic — relating to bezoar
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bladebone — the scapula, or shoulder blade.
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- blockhead — a stupid person
- bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boat deck — the deck of a ship on which the lifeboats are kept
- 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
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- 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.
- 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
- buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- burladero — a safe area for the bull-fighter in a bull ring
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- carbonade — a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.