7-letter words containing b, o, a, d
- boasted — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- bodhran — shallow one-sided drum popular in Irish and Scottish folk music
- bogarde — Sir Dirk, real name Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde. 1920–99, British film actor and writer: his films include The Servant (1963) and Death in Venice (1970). His writings include the autobiographical A Postillion Struck by Lightning (1977) and the novel A Period of Adjustment (1994)
- bogland — an area of wetland, usually extensive
- boiardo — Matteo Maria (matˈtɛːo maˈria), conte de Scandiano. 1434–94, Italian poet; author of the historical epic Orlando Innamorato (1487)
- bojardo — Matteo Maria [mah-tey-oh muh-ree-uh;; Italian maht-te-aw mah-ree-ah] /mɑˈteɪ oʊ məˈri ə;; Italian mɑtˈtɛ ɔ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1434–94, Italian poet.
- bolland — Jean de [French zhahn duh] /French ʒɑ̃ də/ (Show IPA), or Johan van [Flemish yoh-hahn vahn] /Flemish yoʊˈhɑn vɑn/ (Show IPA), or John, 1596–1665, Belgian Jesuit hagiographer.
- bollard — Bollards are short thick concrete posts that are used to prevent cars from going on to someone's land or on to part of a road.
- bombard — If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.
- bondage — Bondage is the condition of being someone's property and having to work for them.
- bondman — a feudal serf
- bonnard — Pierre (pjɛr). 1867–1947, French painter and lithographer, noted for the effects of light and colour in his landscapes and sunlit interiors
- boutade — an outburst; sally
- bowhead — a large-mouthed arctic whale, Balaena mysticetus, that has become rare through overfishing but is now a protected species
- boxhead — a heading, usually atthe top of a page, newspaper column, or column of figures, enclosed in a box formed by rules.
- bradsot — braxy (def 1).
- braford — one of a breed of beef cattle, developed in the southwestern U.S. from Brahman and Hereford stock, especially well adapted to sparse grazing and a hot, humid environment.
- bragdon — Claude, 1866–1946, U.S. architect, stage designer, and author.
- brandon — a masculine name
- bravado — Bravado is an appearance of courage or confidence that someone shows in order to impress other people.
- broad a — of or relating to a type of pronunciation transcription in which symbols correspond approximately to phonemes without taking account of allophonic variations
- broadax — an ax with a broad blade, used as a weapon or for hewing timber
- broaden — When something broadens, it becomes wider.
- broader — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- broadly — You can use broadly to indicate that something is generally true.
- broadus — something given as a bonus; lagniappe.
- brocade — Brocade is a thick, expensive material, often made of silk, with a raised pattern on it.
- brocard — an elementary legal principle, often expressed in Latin
- bucardo — a recently extinct Spanish mountain goat
- busload — A busload of people is a large number of passengers on a bus.
- by-road — a side road.
- cabildo — a municipal council, or a town hall, in Latin America
- chobdar — a macebearer or attendant of a king or eminent dignitary in India
- codable — capable of being coded
- cordoba — standard monetary unit of Nicaragua
- daboias — Plural form of daboia.
- dad bod — an untoned and slightly plump male physique, esp one considered attractive
- dagobas — Plural form of dagoba.
- dambrod — a draughtboard
- day boy — a boy who attends a boarding school daily, but returns home each evening
- day job — the job that a person during the day to earn a living, as opposed to some more glamorous activity such as being a singer, dancer, actor, writer that they aspire to make their main source of income
- dayboat — a small sailing boat with no sleeping accommodation
- daybook — a book in which the transactions of each day are recorded as they occur
- dazibao — (in China) a wallposter.
- debbora — Deborah (def 1).
- deboard — To exit a form of transportation such as a boat, ship, airplane, trolley, streetcar or spaceship.
- deborah — a prophetess and judge of Israel who fought the Canaanites (Judges 4, 5)
- diablos — Plural form of diablo.
- diabolo — a game in which one throws and catches a spinning top on a cord fastened to two sticks held in the hands
- dobhash — an interpreter