8-letter words containing b, o, a, d
- balloted — a slip or sheet of paper, cardboard, or the like, on which a voter marks his or her vote.
- bandello — Matteo [maht-te-aw] /mɑtˈtɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1485–1561, Italian ecclesiastic and author.
- banderol — Alternative form of banderole.
- bandoeng — Bandung.
- bandores — Plural form of bandore.
- bar code — A bar code is an arrangement of numbers and parallel lines that is printed on products to be sold in shops. The bar code can be read by computers.
- bar food — food served in a pub
- barbados — an island in the Caribbean, in the E Lesser Antilles: a British colony from 1628 to 1966, now an independent state within the Commonwealth. Language: English. Currency: Barbados dollar. Capital: Bridgetown. Pop: 288 725 (2013 est). Area: 430 sq km (166 sq miles)
- barcoded — having a barcode
- barnardo — Dr Thomas John. 1845–1905, British philanthropist, who founded homes for destitute children
- barndoor — The large door of a barn.
- barnwood — aged and weathered boards, especially those salvaged from dismantled barns: The den was paneled in barnwood.
- baseload — The minimum load on a power station over a standard period.
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- basildon — a town in SE England, in S Essex: designated a new town in 1955. Pop: 99 876 (2001)
- basswood — any of several North American linden trees, esp Tilia americana
- baudouin — 1930-93; king of Belgium (1951-93): son of Leopold III
- baudrons — a cat
- beaconed — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- beadroll — a list of persons for whom prayers are to be offered
- beadwork — a narrow strip of some material used for edging or ornamentation
- bearwood — cascara (sense 1)
- beatdown — A physical beating or assault.
- becoward — to make cowardly, to make into a coward
- bed load — the sand, gravel, boulders, or other debris transported by rolling or sliding along the bottom of a stream.
- bedboard — a piece of wood placed under a mattress to make a bed firmer
- bedsonia — a former name for the genus of bacteria now called Chlamydia
- bee road — an area planted with nectar-rich flowers in order to provide a habitat for bees and other pollinating insects
- bemoaned — to express distress or grief over; lament: to bemoan one's fate.
- beshadow — to darken with shadow
- big road — a main road or highway.
- biocidal — destructive of living organisms
- biodrama — a drama based on the life of an actual person or persons.
- blackcod — sablefish.
- blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
- blazoned — to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; proclaim: The pickets blazoned their grievances on placards.
- blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- blowhard — If you describe someone as a blowhard, you mean that they express their opinions very forcefully, and usually in a boastful way.
- boadicea — Boudicca
- board up — If you board up a door or window, you fix pieces of wood over it so that it is covered up.
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- boardman — a member of a board
- boat bed — a bed of the Empire period having raised ends terminating in outward scrolls.
- boatload — A boatload of people or things is a lot of people or things that are, or were, in a boat.
- boatyard — A boatyard is a place where boats are built and repaired or kept.
- bodanzky — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1877–1939, Austrian opera director and orchestra conductor: in the U.S. after 1915.
- bodleian — the principal library of Oxford University: a copyright deposit library
- body art — physical adornments such as tattoos and piercings
- body bag — A body bag is a specially designed large plastic bag which is used to carry a dead body away, for example when someone has been killed in a battle or an accident.