9-letter words containing a, n, u, d
- anti-drug — opposing or restricting the use of narcotics or other drugs of abuse: to enact stricter antidrug laws.
- antifraud — acting against fraud
- ascendeur — a metal grip that is threaded on a rope and can be alternately tightened and slackened as an aid to climbing the rope: used attached to slings for the feet and waist
- astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
- audiencia — a high court, found in South America during the colonial period
- audiphone — a type of hearing aid consisting of a diaphragm that, when placed against the upper teeth, conveys sound vibrations to the inner ear
- auditions — Plural form of audition.
- augmented — (of an interval) increased or expanded from the state of being perfect or major by the raising of the higher note or the dropping of the lower note by one semitone
- aurobindo — Sri (Sri Aurobindo Ghose) 1872–1950, Indian scholar and spiritual leader.
- auslander — (in a German-speaking country) a foreigner
- avizandum — a judge's or court's decision to consider a case privately before giving judgment
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- baldaquin — Also, baudekin. Textiles. a silk brocade interwoven with gold or silver threads, used chiefly for ceremonial purposes.
- 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.
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- 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
- blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
- boarhound — a hound used to chase boar
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- 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
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- 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
- calendula — any Eurasian plant of the genus Calendula, esp the pot marigold, having orange-and-yellow rayed flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- candlenut — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, of tropical Asia and Polynesia
- candytuft — either of two species of Iberis grown as annual garden plants for their umbels ("tufts") of white, red, or purplish flowers
- canulated — Simple past tense and past participle of canulate.
- cardpunch — a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- cautioned — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- cinquedea — an Italian short sword of the late 15th and early 16th centuries having a broad, tapering blade, often richly ornamented.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- cloudland — region of dreams, imagination, or impractical speculation; visionary realm
- club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- coadunate — united; joined together
- communard — a member of a commune