9-letter words containing d, a, l, b, e
- bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
- boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- breadless — without bread; without food
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- breedable — to produce (offspring); procreate; engender.
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- broadleaf — any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- buildable — suitable for building on
- burladero — a safe area for the bull-fighter in a bull ring
- cablelaid — noting a rope formed of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction; hawser-laid.
- calibered — the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber.
- 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
- clabbered — Simple past tense and past participle of clabber.
- clambered — an act or instance of clambering.
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- club deal — a takeover bid in which several private-equity companies form a syndicate to acquire a target company
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- cuddlable — Able to be cuddled.
- danceable — appropriate for or conducive to dancing: danceable music.
- dead ball — a way of referring to the ball when it is not in play and cannot be used by any player, usually because it has travelled beyond a boundary line
- deafblind — unable to hear or see
- deathbell — Alternative form of death bell.
- deathblow — a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly
- debatable — If you say that something is debatable, you mean that it is not certain.
- debatably — in a debatable or disputable manner
- debateful — quarrelsome
- decidable — able to be decided
- decodable — Able to be read using a certain set of reading knowledge.
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- deferable — capable of being deferred or postponed: a deferrable project.
- definable — Something that is definable can be described or identified.
- definably — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- delayable — able to be delayed
- delegable — capable of being delegated: delegable authority.
- deletable — able to be deleted
- delibrate — (obsolete) To strip off the bark; to peel.
- deludable — Capable of being deluded; gullible.
- denotable — Capable of being denoted or marked.
- deposable — Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
- deputable — able to be deputed
- derivable — to receive or obtain from a source or origin (usually followed by from).