9-letter words containing d, e, b, n
- bartender — A bartender is a person who serves drinks behind a bar.
- basebands — Plural form of baseband.
- bashed in — crushed or dented from a blow
- bastinade — bastinado.
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bawdiness — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- bayoneted — a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
- be warned — If someone says to you 'be warned', they are advising you to be cautious, because there are risks that you may not have thought about.
- beam wind — a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.
- beam-ends — the ends of a vessel's beams
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- bear down — If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.
- beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- bed linen — Bed linen is sheets and pillowcases.
- bed liner — a stiff, durable plastic lining used to protect the bed and side walls of the cargo space of some pickup trucks
- bed stone — the fixed lower member of a pair of millstones. Compare runner (def 12).
- bed-stand — night table.
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- bedecking — Present participle of bedeck.
- bedizened — Dressed up or decorated gaudily.
- bedridden — Someone who is bedridden is so ill or has such a severe disability that they cannot get out of bed.
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- beholding — to observe; look at; see.
- belemnoid — shaped like a dart
- bellyband — a strap around the belly of a draught animal, holding the shafts of a vehicle
- belt down — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- 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
- bendingly — in a curving direction or manner
- bendy bus — an articulated bus
- benedight — blessed
- benefited — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- benighted — If you describe people or the place where they live as benighted, you think they are unfortunate or do not know anything.
- bensulide — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 14 H 24 O 4 NPS 3 , used primarily to control crabgrass and broadleaf weeds.
- benzenoid — similar to benzene
- benzidine — a grey or reddish poisonous crystalline powder that is used mainly in the manufacture of dyes, esp Congo red. Formula: NH2(C6H4)2NH2
- berdyansk — a city in S Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- berg wind — a hot dry wind in South Africa blowing from the plateau down to the coast
- 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
- 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.
- bidentate — having two teeth or toothlike parts or processes
- big-boned — having bones that are unusually massive
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- 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
- bind over — If someone is bound over by a court or a judge, they are given an order and must do as the order says for a particular period of time.