9-letter words containing a, n, d, e
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- bladebone — the scapula, or shoulder blade.
- blandness — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- brand new — entirely new.
- brand-new — A brand-new object is completely new.
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- brandreth — a gridiron, iron trivet, or tripod
- 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.
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- broadener — a person who broadens something, a device which broadens something
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- bundaberg — a town in E Australia, near the E coast of Queensland: centre of a sugar-growing area, with a nearby deep-water port. Pop: 44 556 (2001)
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
- butenandt — Adolf Frederick Johann. 1903–95, German organic chemist. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1939) for his pioneering work on sex hormones
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- cacodemon — an evil spirit or devil
- cadencing — rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words: the cadence of language.
- cadential — relating to or belonging to a cadence or a cadenza
- caesionid — (zoology) Any member of the Caesionidae.
- calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
- caledonia — Scotland
- calendars — Plural form of calendar.
- calenders — Plural form of calender.
- calendric — Of or pertaining to a calendar.
- calendula — any Eurasian plant of the genus Calendula, esp the pot marigold, having orange-and-yellow rayed flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- campodean — a campodeid.
- canadiens — Alternative spelling of Canadiens.
- canalised — to make a canal or canals through.
- canalized — Simple past tense and past participle of canalize.
- cancelled — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
- candlelit — A candlelit room or table is lit by the light of candles.
- candlemas — Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days
- candlenut — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, of tropical Asia and Polynesia
- candlepin — a bowling pin, as used in skittles, tenpin bowling, candlepins, etc
- candlewax — The wax of a candle.
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- cane reed — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- cane toad — a large toad, Rhinella marina, native to Central and South America but introduced into many countries to control insects and other pests of sugar-cane plantations