9-letter words containing b, a, d, m
- bombardon — a brass instrument of the tuba type, similar to a sousaphone
- bondwoman — a female serf or slave
- breadroom — a room or compartment where bread is kept, esp on a ship
- bridemaid — a bridesmaid
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- broadbrim — a broad-brimmed hat, esp one worn by the Quakers in the 17th century
- broadloom — of or designating carpets or carpeting woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams
- broadmoor — an institution in Berkshire, England, for housing and treating mentally ill criminals
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- broodmare — mare for breeding
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
- 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
- carbamide — urea.
- chambered — having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- clambered — an act or instance of clambering.
- colombard — a white grape grown in France, California, and Australia, used for making wine
- combatted — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- d'amboise — Jacques [French zhahk] /French ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), (Joseph) born 1934, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer.
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- deck beam — a stiffening deck member supported at its extremities by knee connections to frames or bulkheads
- diabolism — activities designed to enlist the aid of devils, esp in witchcraft or sorcery
- digambara — the earlier of the two principal Jain sects, whose members went naked.
- disablism — Ableism: discrimination against the disabled.
- disembark — to go ashore from a ship.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- domitable — Able to be tamed or bent to one's will; tamable, subduable.
- doorjambs — Plural form of doorjamb.
- dreamboat — a highly attractive or desirable person.
- drumbeats — Plural form of drumbeat.
- dumb ague — an irregular form of intermittent malarial fever, lacking the usual chill.
- dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumb dora — a foolishly simple, stupid, or scatterbrained woman.
- dumb-cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- dumbass's — a thoroughly stupid person; blockhead.
- dyushambe — a former name of Dushanbe.
- embargoed — Simple past tense and past participle of embargo.
- embassade — an embassy
- embattled — (of a place or people) involved in or prepared for war, especially because surrounded by enemy forces.
- emendable — Capable of being emended, corrigible.
- formboard — a board or slab serving as a form for poured concrete.
- gambadoes — Gamashes; spatterdashes.
- gambolled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- game bird — any bird hunted chiefly for sport, as a quail or pheasant, especially such a bird that is protected by game laws.
- gameboard — A portable surface on which a game is played, and which is marked for play of that game.
- hebdomads — Plural form of hebdomad.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- islamabad — Islamic Republic of, a republic in S Asia, between India and Afghanistan: formerly part of British India; known as West Pakistan from 1947–71 to distinguish it from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 310,403 sq. mi. (803,881 sq. km). Capital: Islamabad.
- lamb down — to persuade (someone) to spend all his money