9-letter words containing d, a, r, b
- bird call — a sound made by a bird.
- bird farm — an aircraft carrier.
- bird walk — an excursion, usually undertaken as a group with an expert leader, for observing and studying birds in their natural habitat.
- birdbrain — a foolish or unintelligent person
- birdwatch — to watch birds
- birthdate — Your birthdate is the same as your date of birth.
- 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
- blackbird — A blackbird is a common European bird. The male has black feathers and a yellow beak, and the female has brown feathers.
- bladdered — intoxicated; drunk
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- blizzardy — characterized by blizzards, or resembling a blizzard
- blow-hard — an exceptionally boastful and talkative person.
- bluebeard — a villain in European folk tales who marries several wives and murders them in turn. In many versions the seventh and last wife escapes the fate of the others
- 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 ride — a ride in a boat
- body hair — hair that grows on the body as opposed to the head or face
- body part — a part of a human body
- body wrap — a beauty treatment in which the body is covered in lotion and wrapped tightly in strips of cloth in order to promote weight loss or improve skin tone
- bodyboard — a surfboard that is shorter and blunter than the standard board and on which the surfer lies rather than stands
- bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
- bombarded — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bombarder — a person or thing which bombards
- bombardon — a brass instrument of the tuba type, similar to a sousaphone
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- bordereau — a memorandum or invoice prepared for a company by an underwriter, containing a list of reinsured risks
- bosberaad — a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
- bracketed — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- bradlaugh — Charles. 1833–91, British radical and freethinker: barred from taking his seat in parliament (1880–86) for refusing to take the parliamentary oath
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brake pad — the flat metal casting, together with the bound friction material, in a disc brake
- brand new — entirely new.
- brand-new — A brand-new object is completely new.
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- brandreth — a gridiron, iron trivet, or tripod
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- bread bin — A bread bin is a wooden, metal, or plastic container for storing bread.
- breadhead — a person who is overly concerned with money
- breadless — without bread; without food
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- breadroom — a room or compartment where bread is kept, esp on a ship
- breadroot — a leguminous plant, Psoralea esculenta, of central North America, having an edible starchy root