9-letter words containing c, a, d
- back dive — a dive in which the diver stands on the springboard with the back to the water and jumps up, arching backward to land either feetfirst facing the springboard or headfirst facing away from the springboard.
- back door — a door at the rear or side of a building
- back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
- back road — A back road is a small country road with very little traffic.
- back yard — an area, usually paved, at the rear of a building
- back-door — secret; furtive; illicit; indirect.
- back-load — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- back-wind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- backbends — Plural form of backbend.
- backboard — In basketball, the backboard is the flat board above each of the baskets.
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- backdated — Put an earlier date to (a document or agreement) than the actual one.
- backdates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backdate.
- backdowns — Plural form of backdown.
- backdraft — an explosive surge in a fire produced by the sudden mixing of air with other combustible gases.
- backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
- backfield — the area behind the line of scrimmage from which the backfield begin each play
- backfired — Simple past tense and past participle of backfire.
- backhands — Plural form of backhand.
- backlands — Plural form of backland.
- backorder — Commerce. an order or part of an order waiting to be filled.
- backpedal — to press backward on the pedals of a bicycle, as to brake
- backroads — Plural form of backroad.
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- backsides — Plural form of backside.
- backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
- backsword — a person who uses the backsword
- backwards — If you move or look backwards, you move or look in the direction that your back is facing.
- backwoods — If you refer to an area as the backwoods, you mean that it is a long way from large towns and is isolated from modern life.
- backwords — Plural form of backword.
- backyards — Plural form of backyard.
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
- bad check — A bad check is a check that will not be paid because there is a mistake on it, or because there is not enough money in the account of the person who wrote the check.
- bad place — Midland and Southern U.S. hell.
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- baldachin — a richly ornamented silk and gold brocade
- baldfaced — blatant or undisguised
- bandicoot — any agile terrestrial marsupial of the family Peramelidae of Australia and New Guinea. They have a long pointed muzzle and a long tail and feed mainly on small invertebrates
- bank card — A bank card is a plastic card which your bank gives you so you can get money from your bank account using a cash machine. It is also called an ATM card in American English. In Britain, you also use bank cards to prove who you are when you pay for something by cheque.
- bar chord — a musical chord that is played on a stringed instrument using the barré technique.
- bar ditch — a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.
- baracaldo — city in The Basque Country, N Spain: pop. 105,000
- barbecued — Cooked in a barbecue.
- barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
- barefaced — You use barefaced to describe someone's behavior when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
- barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
- barnacled — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- barracked — Simple past tense and past participle of barrack.
- barracuda — A barracuda is a large tropical sea fish that eats other fish.