9-letter words containing a, d, r, i
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- bird call — a sound made by a bird.
- bird farm — an aircraft carrier.
- bird walk — an excursion, usually undertaken as a group with an expert leader, for observing and studying birds in their natural habitat.
- birdbrain — a foolish or unintelligent person
- birdwatch — to watch birds
- birthdate — Your birthdate is the same as your date of birth.
- blackbird — A blackbird is a common European bird. The male has black feathers and a yellow beak, and the female has brown feathers.
- blizzardy — characterized by blizzards, or resembling a blizzard
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boat ride — a ride in a boat
- body hair — hair that grows on the body as opposed to the head or face
- 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
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- cabdriver — a taxi driver
- cadaveric — a dead body, especially a human body to be dissected; corpse.
- cage bird — a pet bird kept in a cage
- cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
- calandria — a cylindrical vessel through which tubes pass, esp one forming part of an evaporator, heat exchanger, or nuclear reactor
- caldarium — (in ancient Rome) a room for taking hot baths
- calendric — Of or pertaining to a calendar.
- calibered — the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber.
- calipered — Simple past tense and past participle of caliper.
- caller id — A telephone that has caller ID displays the telephone number and name of the person who is calling you.
- cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
- cantharid — any beetle of the family Cantharidae, having a soft elongated body; though found frequenting flowers, they are carnivorous
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- car radio — a radio built into the dashboard of an automobile