8-letter words containing a, d, e
- 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
- bareland — (of a croft) having no house attached
- barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
- barraged — Simple past tense and past participle of barrage.
- barred i — a high central vowel with phonetic quality approximating that of the vowels in pit, put, putt, or pet, and considered by most phonologists as a phonetic variant of one of these vowels, depending on the context, but by some as an autonomous phoneme in some varieties of English.
- barreled — Having the specified number of barrels.
- bartered — to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.
- baseband — a transmission technique using a narrow range of frequencies that allows only one message to be telecommunicated at a time
- baselard — a historical (predominantly 13th–17th century) short Swiss sword with a distinctive crescent-shaped pommel and crossguard
- baseload — The minimum load on a power station over a standard period.
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- basified — Simple past tense and past participle of basify.
- basseted — an outcrop, as of the edges of strata.
- bastides — Plural form of bastide.
- battened — Simple past tense and past participle of batten.
- battered — Something that is battered is old and in poor condition because it has been used a lot.
- baudekin — baldachin
- bayadere — a dancing girl, esp one serving in a Hindu temple
- be ahead — to have an advantage; be winning
- be arsed — to be willing, inclined, or prepared (esp in the phrase can't be arsed)
- beaconed — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.