9-letter words containing d, b, a
- bedjacket — A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women.
- bedlamism — anything characteristic of bedlam
- bedlamite — a lunatic; insane person
- bedplates — Plural form of bedplate.
- bedrabble — to drench or muddy.
- bedraggle — to make (hair, clothing, etc) limp, untidy, or dirty, as with rain or mud
- bedspread — A bedspread is a decorative cover which is put over a bed, on top of the sheets and blankets.
- bedsteads — Plural form of bedstead.
- bedstraws — Plural form of bedstraw.
- bedwarmer — a metal pan containing hot coals, formerly used to warm a bed
- bee bread — a mixture of pollen and honey stored by bees and fed to their young.
- bee-bread — a mixture of pollen and honey stored by bees and fed to their young.
- beef road — a road used for transporting cattle
- beeswaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of beeswax.
- beggardom — beggary (def 2).
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- belatedly — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- bell toad — a frog, Ascaphus truei, of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent Canada, the male of which has its cloaca modified into a taillike copulatory organ.
- bellyband — a strap around the belly of a draught animal, holding the shafts of a vehicle
- bemedaled — wearing or adorned with many medals: a bemedaled general; wearing a bemedaled military blouse.
- benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
- bepatched — mended with or covered in patches
- berdyansk — a city in S Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- berdyayev — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1874–1948, Russian philosopher. Although he was a Marxist, his Christian views led him to criticize Soviet communism and he was forced into exile (1922)
- bergander — a species of European duck; sheldrake
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- bernhardi — Friedrich A. J. von [free-drikh fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1930, German general.
- bernhardt — Sarah. original name Rosine Bernard. 1844–1923, French actress, regarded as one of the greatest tragic actresses of all time
- besmeared — to smear all over; bedaub.
- betamaxed — (jargon) When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition. E.g. "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market". The Betamex videotape standard lost to VHS.
- bethsaida — a ruined town in N Israel, near the N shore of the Sea of Galilee
- bezoardic — relating to bezoar
- bi-endian — Silicon schizophrenia. Processors and other chips that have can be switched to work in big-endian or little-endian mode. The PowerPC chip has this ability, which allows it to run the little-endian Windows NT, or the big-endian Mac OS/PPC.
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- bidentate — having two teeth or toothlike parts or processes
- bierstadt — Albert1830-1902; U.S. painter, born in Germany
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- big daddy — someone or something dominantly important, powerful, wealthy, or, often, paternalistic
- big media — the mainstream media, as television and newspapers: blogs that compete with big media.
- bigheaded — Informal. an excessive estimate of one's importance; conceit.
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- bile acid — any of various steroid acids, produced in the liver and stored with bile, that emulsify fats during digestion.
- billboard — A billboard is a very large board on which posters are displayed.
- billiards — Billiards is a game played on a large table, in which you use a long stick called a cue to hit balls against each other or into pockets around the sides of the table.
- bin laden — Osama (əʊˈsɑːmə). 1957–2011, Saudi-born leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network: presumed architect of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11 2001. Killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
- biohazard — material of biological origin that is hazardous to humans
- bipedally — in a bipedal manner
- bipyramid — a geometrical form consisting of two pyramids with a common polygonal base
- biradical — a molecule with two centres