9-letter words containing b, a, r, d
- doorjambs — Plural form of doorjamb.
- drabbling — Present participle of drabble.
- draftable — Capable of being drafted.
- drag bunt — an in-motion bunt for a base hit usually attempted by a left-handed batter, who starts for first base while trailing the bat to meet the ball, without squaring around, in order to catch the infield by surprise. Compare sacrifice (def 6).
- draggable — (computing, graphical user interface) Capable of being dragged.
- drainable — Capable of being drained.
- 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.
- drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
- dreamboat — a highly attractive or desirable person.
- drillable — Machinery, Building Trades. a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, especially by rotation. a tool, especially a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- driveable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- drop bear — a mythical creature said to live in the outback; it resembles an oversized koala with sharp teeth and drops from trees to devour unwary passers-by
- droppable — Capable of being dropped (especially by an aircraft).
- drumbeats — Plural form of drumbeat.
- dry basis — The dry basis is a measure of how much water is in a solid, which is expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the completely dry solid.
- dual-carb — (of an engine) equipped with a pair of carburetors.
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- dumb dora — a foolishly simple, stupid, or scatterbrained woman.
- 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.
- dunbarton — former county of W Scotland
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- ebrillade — a tug on the rein when a horse will not turn
- embargoed — Simple past tense and past participle of embargo.
- endurable — Able to be endured; bearable.
- endurably — In an endurable or tolerable manner.
- extrabold — a font with very bold characters
- fabrikoid — a waterproof fabric made of cloth coated with pyroxylin
- faidherbe — Louis Léon César. 1818–89, French soldier and governor of Senegal (1854–65); founder of Dakar
- fallboard — the hinged covering that protects a piano keyboard when it is not being played.
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- faridabad — an industrial city in Haryana, N India.
- fireboard — a board used to close a fireplace.
- firebrand — a piece of burning wood or other material.
- firozabad — a city in Uttar Pradesh state, N central India.
- flatbread — Also, flatbrod [flat-brohd] /ˈflæt broʊd/ (Show IPA). a thin, waferlike bread, usually rye, baked especially in Scandinavian countries.
- flipboard — a piece of office equipment consisting of a board to which a flip chart or some other pad can be attached
- footboard — a board or small platform on which to support the foot or feet.
- forbiddal — Lb archaic The act of forbidding something.
- formboard — a board or slab serving as a form for poured concrete.
- freebased — Simple past tense and past participle of freebase.
- freeboard — Nautical. the distance between the level of the water and the upper surface of the freeboard deck amidships at the side of a hull: regulated by the agencies of various countries according to the construction of the hull, the type of cargo carried, the area of the world in which it sails, the type of water, and the season of the year. Compare load line. (on a cargo vessel) the distance between the uppermost deck considered fully watertight and the official load line. the portion of the side of a hull that is above the water.
- fretboard — a fingerboard with frets, as on a guitar.
- friarbird — any of various Australasian honeyeaters, especially of the genus Philemon.
- fry bread — a flat wheat bread made by North American Indians of the SW U.S., that is cooked by frying in deep fat until light brown and puffed on both sides
- gabardine — Also, gaberdine. a firm, tightly woven fabric of worsted, cotton, polyester, or other fiber, with a twill weave.