8-letter words containing a, l, d
- ballades — Plural form of ballade.
- balladic — relating to ballads
- balladry — ballad poetry or songs
- balloted — a slip or sheet of paper, cardboard, or the like, on which a voter marks his or her vote.
- ballyard — a baseball ground
- bandelet — a small band of any kind, particularly one worn around the head
- bandello — Matteo [maht-te-aw] /mɑtˈtɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1485–1561, Italian ecclesiastic and author.
- banderol — Alternative form of banderole.
- bandfile — to file with a file band on a band mill or band saw.
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- bareland — (of a croft) having no house attached
- barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
- barreled — Having the specified number of barrels.
- baselard — a historical (predominantly 13th–17th century) short Swiss sword with a distinctive crescent-shaped pommel and crossguard
- baseload — The minimum load on a power station over a standard period.
- basilard — a medieval dagger having a tapering blade with straight transverse quillons and a T -shaped pommel.
- basildon — a town in SE England, in S Essex: designated a new town in 1955. Pop: 99 876 (2001)
- beadlike — resembling a bead
- beadroll — a list of persons for whom prayers are to be offered
- becalmed — If a sailing ship is becalmed, it is unable to move because there is no wind.
- bed load — the sand, gravel, boulders, or other debris transported by rolling or sliding along the bottom of a stream.
- bedabble — to make wet or damp in such a way as to make dirty or untidy
- bedaggle — to soil the bottom of (garments) by trailing through dirt
- bedazzle — to dazzle or confuse, as with brilliance
- beddable — sexually attractive
- bedlamer — a harp seal, beyond the beater stage but not yet mature.
- bedplate — a heavy metal platform or frame to which an engine or machine is attached
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- beheadal — a beheading
- belandre — bilander.
- belaunde — Fernando [fer-nahn-daw] /fɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), (Fernando Belaúnde Terry) 1913?–2002, Peruvian architect and statesman: president 1963–68, 1980–85.
- belgrade — the capital of Serbia, in the E part at the confluence of the Danube and Sava Rivers: became the capital of Serbia in 1878, of Yugoslavia in 1929, and later of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006). Pop: 1 280 639 (2002)
- benadryl — an antihistamine drug used in sleeping tablets; diphenhydramine. Formula: C17H21NO
- bendable — to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.
- biasedly — in a biased manner
- bicaudal — having two tails
- biddable — having sufficient value to be bid on, as a hand or suit at bridge
- bidental — a sacred place where lightning has struck
- big deal — If you say that something is a big deal, you mean that it is important or significant in some way.
- bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
- billhead — a printed form for making out bills
- billiard — of or relating to billiards
- bindable — capable of being tied by a rope
- biocidal — destructive of living organisms
- biradial — showing both bilateral and radial symmetry, as certain sea anemones
- birdcall — the characteristic call or song of a bird
- blackcod — sablefish.
- bladdery — like a bladder
- bladelet — a small, blade-shaped, sometimes retouched piece of stone used as the cutting edge of a weapon or tool by late Stone Age peoples.
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.