9-letter words containing b, o, a, d
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- callboard — a notice board listing opportunities for performers
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- 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
- carbonade — a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer
- carbonado — a piece of meat, fish, etc, scored and grilled
- cardboard — Cardboard is thick, stiff paper that is used, for example, to make boxes and models.
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohobated — to distill again from the same or a similar substance, as by pouring a distilled liquid back upon the matter remaining in the vessel, or upon another mass of similar matter.
- colombard — a white grape grown in France, California, and Australia, used for making wine
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- combatted — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- confabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of confab.
- corkboard — a thin slab made of granules of cork, used as a floor or wall finish and as an insulator
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- d'amboise — Jacques [French zhahk] /French ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), (Joseph) born 1934, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer.
- dannebrog — the Danish flag
- dartboard — A dartboard is a circular board with numbers on it which is used as the target in a game of darts.
- dashboard — The dashboard in a car is the panel facing the driver's seat where most of the instruments and switches are.
- datebooks — Plural form of datebook.
- day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.
- daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
- deathblow — a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- decodable — Able to be read using a certain set of reading knowledge.
- denotable — Capable of being denoted or marked.
- deposable — Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
- detonable — able to be detonated
- diabolify — (transitive) To ascribe diabolical qualities to; to change into, or represent as, a devil.
- diabolism — activities designed to enlist the aid of devils, esp in witchcraft or sorcery
- diabolist — Theology. action aided or caused by the devil; sorcery; witchcraft. the character or condition of a devil. a doctrine concerning devils. a belief in or worship of devils.
- diabolize — to make (someone or something) diabolical
- diabology — the study of the devil or devils
- dirtboard — A long skateboard with larger-than-average wheels, designed for off-road use.
- dna probe — a technique for identifying a segment of DNA, using a known sequence of nucleotide bases from a DNA strand to detect a complementary sequence in the sample by means of base pairing.
- do a bunk — run away
- do battle — fight, struggle
- doability — Feasibility; practicability.
- dodgeball — a circle game in which players throw an inflated ball at opponents within the circle who try to avoid being hit, and therefore eliminated, the winner being the one who remains unhit.
- doggy bag — a small bag provided on request by a restaurant for a customer to carry home leftovers of a meal, ostensibly to feed a dog or other pet.