9-letter words containing a, d, u
- autodrome — a track or circuit for racing cars, go-karts, etc
- autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
- autolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of autolyse.
- automated — An automated factory, office, or industrial process uses machines to do the work instead of people.
- automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.
- autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
- avizandum — a judge's or court's decision to consider a case privately before giving judgment
- ayurvedic — Ayurvedic medicine is a type of complementary medicine, originally from India, that uses herbs and other natural treatments.
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- baldaquin — Also, baudekin. Textiles. a silk brocade interwoven with gold or silver threads, used chiefly for ceremonial purposes.
- balled up — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- bandurria — a Spanish musical instrument of the guitar family with six pairs of double strings.
- banqueted — Simple past tense and past participle of banquet.
- barbecued — Cooked in a barbecue.
- barbequed — Alternative spelling of barbecued.
- barracuda — A barracuda is a large tropical sea fish that eats other fish.
- bass drum — a large shallow drum of low and indefinite pitch
- batardeau — A cofferdam.
- baud barf — (jargon) /bawd barf/ The garbage one gets on the display screen when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (especially line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts the connection. Baud barf is not completely random, by the way; hackers with a lot of serial-line experience can usually tell whether the device at the other end is expecting a higher or lower speed than the terminal is set to. *Really* experienced ones can identify particular speeds.
- baud rate — a rate of data transmission measured in baud
- bead-ruby — a N temperate liliaceous plant with small white bell-shaped flowers and small red berries
- beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- beatitude — supreme blessedness or happiness
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- bland out — to become bland
- bluebeard — a villain in European folk tales who marries several wives and murders them in turn. In many versions the seventh and last wife escapes the fate of the others
- blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
- board out — If someone in your care is boarded out, they are sent to stay with someone else.
- boarhound — a hound used to chase boar
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
- bordereau — a memorandum or invoice prepared for a company by an underwriter, containing a list of reinsured risks
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
- bradlaugh — Charles. 1833–91, British radical and freethinker: barred from taking his seat in parliament (1880–86) for refusing to take the parliamentary oath
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
- buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.