9-letter words containing d, e, a, c
- backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- bad check — A bad check is a check that will not be paid because there is a mistake on it, or because there is not enough money in the account of the person who wrote the check.
- bad place — Midland and Southern U.S. hell.
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- baldfaced — blatant or undisguised
- barbecued — Cooked in a barbecue.
- barefaced — You use barefaced to describe someone's behavior when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
- barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
- 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.
- barracked — Simple past tense and past participle of barrack.
- 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.
- 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.
- bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
- bed place — a space housing a bed or bedding, especially one having the form of a cupboard closed with doors or curtains.
- bedjacket — A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women.
- benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
- bepatched — mended with or covered in patches
- bezoardic — relating to bezoar
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bile acid — any of various steroid acids, produced in the liver and stored with bile, that emulsify fats during digestion.
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- bit decay — bit rot
- blackbead — cat's-claw.
- 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.
- blacklead — to colour or rub with black lead
- blackweed — the common ragweed.
- 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
- boat deck — the deck of a ship on which the lifeboats are kept
- bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
- bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
- boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
- 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.
- bridecake — a wedding cake
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- cabdriver — a taxi driver
- cablelaid — noting a rope formed of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction; hawser-laid.
- cacodemon — an evil spirit or devil
- cadaveric — a dead body, especially a human body to be dissected; corpse.
- cadencing — rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words: the cadence of language.
- cadential — relating to or belonging to a cadence or a cadenza
- cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- caesionid — (zoology) Any member of the Caesionidae.
- cage bird — a pet bird kept in a cage