9-letter words containing a, d, n
- avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
- azine dye — any of various dyes derived from phenazine, used chiefly for dyeing wood, leather, and textiles.
- baby bond — a sum of money invested shortly after the birth of a child, the returns of which may not be collected until the child reaches adulthood
- back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
- back-wind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- backbends — Plural form of backbend.
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- backdowns — Plural form of backdown.
- backhands — Plural form of backhand.
- backlands — Plural form of backland.
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- bad lands — a deeply eroded barren region of SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
- bada-bing — an expression used to suggest that something can be done with no difficulty or delay
- badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badinages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badinage.
- badinerie — a name given in the 18th century to a type of quick, light movement in a suite
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- baekeland — Leo Hendrik [lee-oh hen-drik;; Flemish ley-oh hen-drik] /ˈli oʊ ˈhɛn drɪk;; Flemish ˈleɪ oʊ ˈhɛn drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, U.S. chemist, born in Belgium: developed Bakelite.
- bail bond — a surety bond (money or property) offered or deposited by a defendant or other persons to ensure the defendant's appearance at trial
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- baldachin — a richly ornamented silk and gold brocade
- baldaquin — Also, baudekin. Textiles. a silk brocade interwoven with gold or silver threads, used chiefly for ceremonial purposes.
- baldmoney — Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.
- baldwin i — 1058–1118, crusader and first king of Jerusalem (1100–18), who captured Acre (1104), Beirut (1109), and Sidon (1110)
- ballooned — Simple past tense and past participle of balloon.
- banalized — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
- banbridge — a district in S Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 43 083 (2003 est). Area: 442 sq km (170 sq miles)
- band list — a list of Canadian Indians formally recognized as belonging to a band
- band mill — a powered machine having two pulleys for a saw band or a file band; band saw.
- band-gala — (in India) (of a coat) closed at the neck
- band-role — a small flag or streamer fastened to a lance, masthead, etc.
- banda sea — a part of the Pacific in Indonesia, between Sulawesi and New Guinea
- bandaging — Strips of cloth or other material used to create a bandage.
- bandalore — an old-fashioned type of yo-yo
- bandannas — Plural form of bandanna.
- bandboxes — Plural form of bandbox.
- bandbrake — a device used to measure the power of brakes
- bandelier — Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840–1914, U.S. anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian, born in Switzerland.
- banderole — a long narrow flag, usually with forked ends, esp one attached to the masthead of a ship; pennant
- bandicoot — any agile terrestrial marsupial of the family Peramelidae of Australia and New Guinea. They have a long pointed muzzle and a long tail and feed mainly on small invertebrates
- bandiness — the quality of being bandy
- bandished — Simple past tense and past participle of bandish.
- bandmates — Plural form of bandmate.
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- bandoleer — a broad belt worn over one shoulder and across the chest, with pockets for carrying ammunition, etc.
- bandolero — a highwayman; a robber
- bandolier — a soldier's broad shoulder belt having small pockets or loops for cartridges
- bandoline — a glutinous hair dressing, used (esp formerly) to keep the hair in place
- bandoneon — a type of square concertina, esp used in Argentina