9-letter words containing d, c
- barracked — Simple past tense and past participle of barrack.
- barracuda — A barracuda is a large tropical sea fish that eats other fish.
- 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.
- basic dye — a dye soluble in acid and insoluble in basic solution, consisting mostly of amino or imino compounds of xanthene or triarylmethane: used mainly for inks, carbon paper, and typewriter ribbon.
- beachhead — A beachhead is an area of land next to the sea or a river where an attacking force has taken control and can prepare to advance further inland.
- beachside — situated near a beach
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- beclouded — Simple past tense and past participle of becloud.
- bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
- bed check — an inspection conducted soon after bedtime or during the night, as in a barracks or dormitory, to determine the presence or absence of persons required by regulation to be in bed.
- bed place — a space housing a bed or bedding, especially one having the form of a cupboard closed with doors or curtains.
- bedcovers — Plural form of bedcover.
- bedecking — Present participle of bedeck.
- bedjacket — A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women.
- beechwood — wood from a beech tree
- bench dog — a dog on exhibit at a dog show before and after competition in the show ring.
- benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
- bepatched — mended with or covered in patches
- berdichev — a city in W central Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- beseeched — to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.
- bewitched — to affect by witchcraft or magic; cast a spell over.
- bezoardic — relating to bezoar
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- bid price — The bid price of a particular stock or share is the price that investors are willing to pay for it.
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bile acid — any of various steroid acids, produced in the liver and stored with bile, that emulsify fats during digestion.
- bile duct — the duct that conveys bile from the liver and the gall bladder to the duodenum
- biradical — a molecule with two centres
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- bird call — a sound made by a bird.
- birdwatch — to watch birds
- bit decay — bit rot
- black dog — depression or melancholy
- black pad — a rough road or track
- 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
- blackband — a type of iron carbonate
- blackbead — cat's-claw.
- blackbird — A blackbird is a common European bird. The male has black feathers and a yellow beak, and the female has brown feathers.
- blackbody — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- blackdamp — air that is low in oxygen content and high in carbon dioxide as a result of an explosion in a mine
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- blackhead — Blackheads are small, dark spots on someone's skin caused by blocked pores.
- blackland — an area of dark peaty soil
- blacklead — to colour or rub with black lead
- blackweed — the common ragweed.
- blackwood — a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon, having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- blockhead — a stupid person
- blue duck — a mountain duck, Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos, of New Zealand having a mostly lead-blue plumage