8-letter words containing d, a, r, b
- brodiaea — any of several plants belonging to the genus Brodiaea, of the amaryllis family, native to western North America, having grasslike basal leaves and clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- brossard — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- browband — the strap of a horse's bridle that goes across the forehead
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cambered — Having camber.
- carabids — Plural form of carabid.
- carboard — (slang) A sport where a rider is towed behind a vehicle. In many ways it encompasses a lot of the aspects of winching in that it has a 'go anywhere' approach. It can in essence occur behind any vehicle assuming that it has sufficient horse power, torque and traction, but the most popular vehicles remain four wheel drives and tractors.
- carlsbad — a town in S California.
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- cb radio — a device that transmits and receives radio signals only within a designated band of frequencies. Compare Citizens Band.
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- crabwood — a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- d'albert — Eugen [German oi-geyn] /German ɔɪˈgeɪn/ (Show IPA), or Eugène [French œ-zhen] /French œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Francis Charles, 1864–1932, German-French pianist and composer, born in Scotland.
- d'arblay — Madame Frances, Burney, Frances.
- dabblers — Plural form of dabbler.
- dabsters — Plural form of dabster.
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- damboard — a draughtboard
- darbyite — a member of the Plymouth Brethren.
- dark web — the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.
- daybreak — Daybreak is the time in the morning when light first appears.
- deadborn — (dated, rare) Stillborn.
- dearborn — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit: automobile industry. Pop: 96 670 (2003 est)
- debarked — Simple past tense and past participle of debark.
- debarker — a machine that strips bark from logs
- debarred — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- debaters — Plural form of debater.
- debeaker — to remove the upper beak from (a bird) to prevent egg eating or attacks on other birds.
- debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
- deverbal — (of a noun or adjective) derived from a verb.
- diablery — Sorcery.
- diarbekr — Diyarbakir.
- diatribe — A diatribe is an angry speech or article which is extremely critical of someone's ideas or activities.
- diborane — a colorless gas with an unpleasant odor, B 2 H 6 , used in the synthesis of organic boron compounds as a dope to introduce boron and as a polymerization catalyst for ethylene.
- dirt bag — Slang. a filthy or contemptible person.
- dirtbags — Plural form of dirtbag.
- dirtball — (slang, derogatory) A dirty or sleazy person.
- disabler — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- doberman — Doberman pinscher.
- doorjamb — either of the two sidepieces of a doorframe.
- drabbest — Superlative form of drab.
- drabbish — Somewhat drab in colour.
- drabbled — Simple past tense and past participle of drabble.
- drabbler — a piece of canvas fixed to the bottom of a sail to give it a greater area
- drabbles — Plural form of drabble.
- drabness — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- drapable — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.