8-letter words containing a, d, e
- boofhead — a stupid person
- bordeaux — a port in SW France, on the River Garonne: a major centre of the wine trade. Pop: 235 878 (2006)
- braeheid — the summit of a hill or slope
- brainerd — a city in central Minnesota.
- brambled — any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
- branched — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- brandade — a Provençal dish of salt cod puréed with olive oil and milk
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandied — flavored or blended with brandy
- brandise — a trivet
- breached — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- breadbin — a household container for bread, usually quite small
- breadbox — A breadbox is the same as a bread bin.
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
- breasted — having a breast.
- breathed — relating to or denoting a speech sound for whose articulation the vocal cords are not made to vibrate
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadaxe — a type of axe with a large blade
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- brocaded — fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
- brodiaea — any of several plants belonging to the genus Brodiaea, of the amaryllis family, native to western North America, having grasslike basal leaves and clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- bud vase — a relatively tall, slender vase, usually footed, for holding a single, stemmed flower, usually a rosebud
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- buddleia — any ornamental shrub of the genus Buddleia, esp B. davidii, which has long spikes of mauve flowers and is frequently visited by butterflies: family Buddleiaceae
- bulkhead — A bulkhead is a wall which divides the inside of a ship or aeroplane into separate sections.
- bullhead — any of various small northern mainly marine scorpaenoid fishes of the family Cottidae that have a large head covered with bony plates and spines
- butthead — a stupid person
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- cabbaged — Chiefly British. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cadaster — an official register showing details of ownership, boundaries, and value of real property in a district, made for taxation purposes
- cadastre — public record of the extent, value, and ownership of land within a district for purposes of taxation
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- caddised — trimmed with caddis
- cadenced — having or marked by a rhythmical cadence: the cadenced steps of marching troops.
- cadences — Plural form of cadence.
- cadenzas — Plural form of cadenza.
- cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
- cadinene — (organic compound) Any of a group of isomeric sesquiterpenes found in juniper essential oil.
- cadreman — an officer or enlisted person in a military cadre.
- caducean — relating to a caduceus
- caduceus — a staff entwined with two serpents and bearing a pair of wings at the top, carried by Hermes (Mercury) as messenger of the gods
- caftaned — wearing a caftan
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.