9-letter words containing d, b, a
- bandmates — Plural form of bandmate.
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- bandoleer — a broad belt worn over one shoulder and across the chest, with pockets for carrying ammunition, etc.
- bandolero — a highwayman; a robber
- bandolier — a soldier's broad shoulder belt having small pockets or loops for cartridges
- bandoline — a glutinous hair dressing, used (esp formerly) to keep the hair in place
- bandoneon — a type of square concertina, esp used in Argentina
- bandshape — (physics) The shape (distribution of strengths with frequency) of a band of electromagnetic radiation.
- bandshell — a type of bandstand enclosed at the back
- bandstand — A bandstand is a platform with a roof where a military band or a brass band can play in the open air.
- bandurria — a Spanish musical instrument of the guitar family with six pairs of double strings.
- bandwagon — You can refer to an activity or movement that has suddenly become fashionable or popular as a bandwagon.
- bandwidth — A bandwidth is the range of frequencies used for a particular telecommunications signal, radio transmission, or computer network.
- bang tidy — of exceptionally good quality
- 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.
- bank raid — an attack on a bank, often involving firearms and violence, with the aim of stealing money or other valuables
- banner ad — A banner ad is a large advertisement on a website that stretches across the top or down the side of the window. It usually contains a link to the advertiser's website.
- banqueted — Simple past tense and past participle of banquet.
- baptisand — Alternative spelling of baptizand.
- baptizand — A person about to submit to baptism.
- 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
- barbadian — Barbadian means belonging or relating to Barbados or its people.
- barbecued — Cooked in a barbecue.
- barbequed — Alternative spelling of barbecued.
- barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
- bardolino — a light dry red wine produced around Verona in NE Italy
- bareboned — short of resources
- barefaced — You use barefaced to describe someone's behavior when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
- bargained — Simple past tense and past participle of bargain.
- barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
- barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
- barn door — an adjustable flap over the front of a studio or theatre lamp
- 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.
- barnboard — barnwood.
- barnyards — Plural form of barnyard.
- barr body — a structure found on the inside of the nuclear membrane of female cells that takes a dark stain and indicates by its presence the sex of the individual
- barracked — Simple past tense and past participle of barrack.
- barracuda — A barracuda is a large tropical sea fish that eats other fish.
- barrelled — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
- barricado — a barricade.
- bartended — Simple past tense and past participle of bartend.
- bartender — A bartender is a person who serves drinks behind a bar.
- bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty
- base head — a person who is addicted to cocaine
- base load — the more or less constant part of the total load on an electrical power-supply system
- basebands — Plural form of baseband.
- baseboard — A baseboard is a narrow length of wood which goes along the bottom of a wall in a room and makes a border between the walls and the floor.