9-letter words containing a, i, d, e
- autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
- 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.
- avoidable — Something that is avoidable can be prevented from happening.
- avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
- axis deer — an Asian deer, Cervus (Axis) axis, of India and Sri Lanka, having a reddish-brown coat spotted with white.
- ayurvedic — Ayurvedic medicine is a type of complementary medicine, originally from India, that uses herbs and other natural treatments.
- azine dye — any of various dyes derived from phenazine, used chiefly for dyeing wood, leather, and textiles.
- azoic dye — any of a group of brilliant, long-lasting azo dyes, formed on the fiber by coupling diazotized materials, used chiefly for printing on cotton.
- babbitted — Simple past tense and past participle of babbitt.
- babelized — reduced to complete confusion or meaninglessness.
- back dive — a dive in which the diver stands on the springboard with the back to the water and jumps up, arching backward to land either feetfirst facing the springboard or headfirst facing away from the springboard.
- backfield — the area behind the line of scrimmage from which the backfield begin each play
- backfired — Simple past tense and past participle of backfire.
- backsides — Plural form of backside.
- backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- 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
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- balladier — a person who sings ballads.
- balladize — to make (something) into a ballad; write a ballad about.
- 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)
- bandelier — Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840–1914, U.S. anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian, born in Switzerland.
- bandiness — the quality of being bandy
- bandished — Simple past tense and past participle of bandish.
- 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
- bargained — Simple past tense and past participle of bargain.
- barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
- barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
- bashed in — crushed or dented from a blow
- basic dye — a dye soluble in acid and insoluble in basic solution, consisting mostly of amino or imino compounds of xanthene or triarylmethane: used mainly for inks, carbon paper, and typewriter ribbon.
- basifixed — (of an anther) attached to the filament by its base
- bastinade — bastinado.
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bawdiness — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- beachside — situated near a beach
- beam wind — a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.
- bear raid — an attempt to force down the price of a security or commodity by sustained selling
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- beatified — to make blissfully happy.
- beatitude — supreme blessedness or happiness
- bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- bedlamism — anything characteristic of bedlam
- bedlamite — a lunatic; insane person
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone