9-letter words containing a, r, o, d
- armadillo — An armadillo is a small animal whose body is covered with large bony scales and which rolls itself into a ball when it is attacked. Armadillos are mainly found in South and Central America.
- arnoldson — Klas Pontus [klahs pawn-tuh s] /klɑs ˈpɔn təs/ (Show IPA), 1844–1916, Swedish author and politician: Nobel Peace Prize 1908.
- arrogated — Simple past tense and past participle of arrogate.
- arrowhead — An arrowhead is the sharp, pointed part of an arrow.
- arrowwood — any of various trees or shrubs, esp certain viburnums, having long straight tough stems formerly used by North American Indians to make arrows
- arseholed — very drunk
- arthrodia — a joint
- arthropod — any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having jointed limbs, a segmented body, and an exoskeleton made of chitin. The group includes the crustaceans, insects, arachnids, and centipedes
- arytenoid — denoting either of two small cartilages of the larynx that are attached to the vocal cords
- asmoulder — in a smouldering or slowly burning manner
- asteroids — Plural form of asteroid.
- astrodome — a transparent dome on the top of an aircraft, through which observations can be made, esp of the stars
- at a word — at once
- at random — If you choose people or things at random, you do not use any particular method, so they all have an equal chance of being chosen.
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- audiogram — a graphic record of the acuity of hearing of a person obtained by means of an audiometer
- auditoria — the space set apart for the audience in a theater, school, or other public building.
- aurobindo — Sri (Sri Aurobindo Ghose) 1872–1950, Indian scholar and spiritual leader.
- autocoder — (language) Possibly the first primitive compiler. AUTOCODER was written by Alick E. Glennie in 1952. It translated symbolic statements into machine language for the Manchester Mark I computer. Autocoding later came to be a generic term for assembly language programming.
- autodrome — a track or circuit for racing cars, go-karts, etc
- back door — a door at the rear or side of a building
- back road — A back road is a small country road with very little traffic.
- back-door — secret; furtive; illicit; indirect.
- backboard — In basketball, the backboard is the flat board above each of the baskets.
- backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
- backorder — Commerce. an order or part of an order waiting to be filled.
- backroads — Plural form of backroad.
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- backsword — a person who uses the backsword
- backwords — Plural form of backword.
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
- bakeboard — a board on which bread dough is rolled and kneaded
- band-role — a small flag or streamer fastened to a lance, masthead, etc.
- bandalore — an old-fashioned type of yo-yo
- banderole — a long narrow flag, usually with forked ends, esp one attached to the masthead of a ship; pennant
- bandoleer — a broad belt worn over one shoulder and across the chest, with pockets for carrying ammunition, etc.
- bandolero — a highwayman; a robber
- bandolier — a soldier's broad shoulder belt having small pockets or loops for cartridges
- bar chord — a musical chord that is played on a stringed instrument using the barré technique.
- baracaldo — city in The Basque Country, N Spain: pop. 105,000
- barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
- bardolino — a light dry red wine produced around Verona in NE Italy
- bareboned — short of resources
- barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
- barn door — an adjustable flap over the front of a studio or theatre lamp
- barnboard — barnwood.
- barr body — a structure found on the inside of the nuclear membrane of female cells that takes a dark stain and indicates by its presence the sex of the individual
- barricado — a barricade.
- bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty