9-letter words containing b, a, d, c
- club card — A club card is a card issued by a retailer which allows the card holder to make discounted purchases.
- club deal — a takeover bid in which several private-equity companies form a syndicate to acquire a target company
- club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohobated — to distill again from the same or a similar substance, as by pouring a distilled liquid back upon the matter remaining in the vessel, or upon another mass of similar matter.
- colombard — a white grape grown in France, California, and Australia, used for making wine
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- combatted — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- confabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of confab.
- corkboard — a thin slab made of granules of cork, used as a floor or wall finish and as an insulator
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- cuddlable — Able to be cuddled.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.
- danceable — appropriate for or conducive to dancing: danceable music.
- date back — If something dates back to a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
- debauched — If you describe someone as debauched, you mean they behave in a way that you think is socially unacceptable, for example because they drink a lot of alcohol or have sex with a lot of people.
- debauchee — a man who leads a life of reckless drinking, promiscuity, and self-indulgence
- debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- decidable — able to be decided
- deck beam — a stiffening deck member supported at its extremities by knee connections to frames or bulkheads
- decodable — Able to be read using a certain set of reading knowledge.
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- diabetics — Plural form of diabetic.
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- drawbacks — Plural form of drawback.
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- dual-carb — (of an engine) equipped with a pair of carburetors.
- dubitancy — doubt; uncertainty
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumb-cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- encodable — able to be encoded
- fade back — to move back from the line of scrimmage, as in order to throw a forward pass
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- feedbacks — Plural form of feedback.
- hand back — return, give back