8-letter words containing d, b, e
- barbered — Simple past tense and past participle of barber.
- barcoded — having a barcode
- barehand — to field (the ball) with one's bare hands rather than one's glove
- bareland — (of a croft) having no house attached
- barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
- barraged — Simple past tense and past participle of barrage.
- barred i — a high central vowel with phonetic quality approximating that of the vowels in pit, put, putt, or pet, and considered by most phonologists as a phonetic variant of one of these vowels, depending on the context, but by some as an autonomous phoneme in some varieties of English.
- barreled — Having the specified number of barrels.
- bartered — to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.
- baseband — a transmission technique using a narrow range of frequencies that allows only one message to be telecommunicated at a time
- baselard — a historical (predominantly 13th–17th century) short Swiss sword with a distinctive crescent-shaped pommel and crossguard
- baseload — The minimum load on a power station over a standard period.
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- basified — Simple past tense and past participle of basify.
- basseted — an outcrop, as of the edges of strata.
- bastides — Plural form of bastide.
- battened — Simple past tense and past participle of batten.
- battered — Something that is battered is old and in poor condition because it has been used a lot.
- baudekin — baldachin
- bayadere — a dancing girl, esp one serving in a Hindu temple
- bdellium — any of several African or W Asian trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora that yield a gum resin
- be ahead — to have an advantage; be winning
- be arsed — to be willing, inclined, or prepared (esp in the phrase can't be arsed)
- be dying — to be eager or desperate (for something or to do something)
- beaconed — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- beadlike — resembling a bead
- beadroll — a list of persons for whom prayers are to be offered
- beadsman — a person who prays for another's soul, esp one paid or fed for doing so
- beadsmen — Plural form of beadsman.
- beadwork — a narrow strip of some material used for edging or ornamentation
- beakhead — (nautical) A protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship.
- beancurd — Alternative spelling of bean curd.
- bearding — the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- bearward — a bear keeper
- bearwood — cascara (sense 1)
- beatdown — A physical beating or assault.
- beavered — Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.
- becalmed — If a sailing ship is becalmed, it is unable to move because there is no wind.
- beckford — William. 1759–1844, English writer and dilettante; author of the oriental romance Vathek (1787)
- beckoned — a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.
- beclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becloud.
- becoward — to make cowardly, to make into a coward
- becudgel — to arm with a cudgel
- bed bolt — a bolt on a bed for attaching a side rail to the head or foot.
- bed down — If you bed down somewhere, you sleep there for the night, instead of in a bed.
- bed load — the sand, gravel, boulders, or other debris transported by rolling or sliding along the bottom of a stream.
- bed rest — a period of resting in bed
- bed tray — a meal tray with legs or supports at each end to fit across the lap of a person who is sitting up in bed.
- bed-rest — a prolonged rest in bed, as in the treatment of an illness.