9-letter words containing b, o, a, d
- baseboard — A baseboard is a narrow length of wood which goes along the bottom of a wall in a room and makes a border between the walls and the floor.
- basswoods — Plural form of basswood.
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bayoneted — a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- beadledom — petty officialdom
- bear down — If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.
- beasthood — the state of beasts, the condition of being a beast
- beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- bed board — a thin, stiff board placed on a bed under the mattress to lend added support for the body
- beef road — a road used for transporting cattle
- beggardom — beggary (def 2).
- bell toad — a frog, Ascaphus truei, of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent Canada, the male of which has its cloaca modified into a taillike copulatory organ.
- bezoardic — relating to bezoar
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- billboard — A billboard is a very large board on which posters are displayed.
- biohazard — material of biological origin that is hazardous to humans
- black dog — depression or melancholy
- black rod — (in Britain) an officer of the House of Lords and of the Order of the Garter, whose main duty is summoning the Commons at the opening and proroguing of Parliament
- blackbody — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- blackwood — a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon, having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber
- bladebone — the scapula, or shoulder blade.
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- bland out — to become bland
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- blockhead — a stupid person
- blood gas — a gas, as oxygen or carbon dioxide, that is dissolved in plasma.
- bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
- bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
- bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
- blow-hard — an exceptionally boastful and talkative person.
- board out — If someone in your care is boarded out, they are sent to stay with someone else.
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boardroom — The boardroom is a room where the board of a company meets.
- boardwalk — A boardwalk is a path made of wooden boards, especially one along a beach.
- boarhound — a hound used to chase boar
- boat deck — the deck of a ship on which the lifeboats are kept
- boat ride — a ride in a boat
- bobadilla — Francisco de [frahn-thees-kaw th e,, -sees-] /frɑnˈθis kɔ ðɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), died 1502, Spanish colonial governor in the West Indies: sent Columbus back to Spain in chains.
- bobtailed — having the tail cut short
- boda-boda — a bicycle taxi
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- bodh gaya — a village in central Bihar, in NE India: site of tree under which Siddhartha became the Buddha.
- body hair — hair that grows on the body as opposed to the head or face
- body mass — the ratio of a person's weight to their height
- body part — a part of a human body
- body plan — Biology. the basic shape of members of an animal phylum; the general structure each individual organism assumes as it develops. Compare bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry.