9-letter words containing d, e, n, s
- ascendant — proceeding upwards; rising
- ascendent — a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence: With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
- ascenders — Plural form of ascender.
- ascendeur — a metal grip that is threaded on a rope and can be alternately tightened and slackened as an aid to climbing the rope: used attached to slings for the feet and waist
- ascending — If a group of things is arranged in ascending order, each thing is bigger, greater, or more important than the thing before it.
- assonated — Simple past tense and past participle of assonate.
- astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
- astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
- asyndesis — (psychiatry) A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
- attendees — a person who is present at a specific time or place: a conference with thousands of attendees.
- attenders — Plural form of attender.
- audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
- auslander — (in a German-speaking country) a foreigner
- backbends — Plural form of backbend.
- badinages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badinage.
- banda sea — a part of the Pacific in Indonesia, between Sulawesi and New Guinea
- bandboxes — Plural form of bandbox.
- bandiness — the quality of being bandy
- bandished — Simple past tense and past participle of bandish.
- bandmates — Plural form of bandmate.
- bandshape — (physics) The shape (distribution of strengths with frequency) of a band of electromagnetic radiation.
- bandshell — a type of bandstand enclosed at the back
- 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.
- beam-ends — the ends of a vessel's beams
- bed stone — the fixed lower member of a pair of millstones. Compare runner (def 12).
- bed-stand — night table.
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- bendy bus — an articulated bus
- bensulide — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 14 H 24 O 4 NPS 3 , used primarily to control crabgrass and broadleaf weeds.
- berdyansk — a city in S Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- blandness — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blindless — (of a window) not being fitted with a blind
- blindness — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- blindside — If you say that you were blindsided by something, you mean that it surprised you in a negative way.
- blondness — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bondstone — a long stone or brick laid in a wall as a header
- boundless — If you describe something as boundless, you mean that there seems to be no end or limit to it.
- boundness — the quality of being bound or obligated
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor