9-letter words containing a, d, i, b
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- body hair — hair that grows on the body as opposed to the head or face
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- 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.
- briarwood — any of several woods used to make tobacco pipes
- brickyard — a place in which bricks are made, stored, or sold
- 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.
- brigading — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- broadbill — any passerine bird of the family Eurylaimidae, of tropical Africa and Asia, having bright plumage and a short wide bill
- broadbrim — a broad-brimmed hat, esp one worn by the Quakers in the 17th century
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- broadside — A broadside is a strong written or spoken attack on a person or institution.
- broadtail — the highly valued black wavy fur obtained from the skins of newly born karakul lambs; caracul
- 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
- buildable — suitable for building on
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
- butt-dial — Also, butt dial. a call made in this way: Sorry, it must have been a butt-dial.
- cabdriver — a taxi driver
- cablelaid — noting a rope formed of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction; hawser-laid.
- cage bird — a pet bird kept in a cage
- cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
- calibered — the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber.
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
- carbamide — urea.
- cedarbird — a type of waxwing native to North America
- cediranib — A potent inhibitor of VEGF receptor tyrosine kinases, under development as a possible anticancer drug.
- chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- d'amboise — Jacques [French zhahk] /French ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), (Joseph) born 1934, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer.
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.