9-letter words containing d, f
- badly off — If you are badly off, you are in a bad situation.
- baldfaced — blatant or undisguised
- barefaced — You use barefaced to describe someone's behavior when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
- basifixed — (of an anther) attached to the filament by its base
- baud barf — (jargon) /bawd barf/ The garbage one gets on the display screen when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (especially line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts the connection. Baud barf is not completely random, by the way; hackers with a lot of serial-line experience can usually tell whether the device at the other end is expecting a higher or lower speed than the terminal is set to. *Really* experienced ones can identify particular speeds.
- be rid of — to be freed from or relieved of (something undesirable)
- beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- beatified — to make blissfully happy.
- bedfellow — You refer to two things or people as bedfellows when they have become associated or related in some way.
- beef road — a road used for transporting cattle
- beefed up — strengthened or reinforced.
- beefed-up — strengthened or reinforced.
- befuddled — confused, muddled, perplexed
- benefited — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- beresford — Bruce. born 1940, Australian film director. His films include The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972), Breaker Morant (1980), Driving Miss Daisy (1989) and Evelyn (2002)
- biddeford — a city in SW Maine.
- bielefeld — a city in Germany, in NE North Rhine-Westphalia: food, textiles. Pop: 328 452 (2003 est)
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- biofueled — running on biofuel
- bird farm — an aircraft carrier.
- bird feed — seeds or other food given to birds.
- bird food — a mixture of seeds, grains, nuts, etc, suitable for birds to eat
- bisulfide — disulfide
- bit field — (data) Part of an item of data, storage location or message, identified as a certain number of contiguous bits starting at a certain bit position within the data. Bit position zero is usually the least significant bit. For example, in an ARM machine code instruction the four-bit field at bits 28 to 31 (the four most significant bits in the 32-bit word) is the "condition code".
- blindfish — any of various small fishes, esp the cavefish, that have rudimentary or functionless eyes and occur in subterranean streams
- blindfold — A blindfold is a strip of cloth that is tied over someone's eyes so that they cannot see.
- bluefield — a city in SW West Virginia.
- body-surf — to ride a wave by lying on it without a surfboard
- 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
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bound for — going or intending to go; on the way to; destined (usually followed by for): The train is bound for Denver.
- boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- broadleaf — any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- bromfield — Louis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
- buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- calcified — Body tissue that is calcified has become hard because of the presence of substances called calcium salts.
- calfdozer — a small bulldozer
- candytuft — either of two species of Iberis grown as annual garden plants for their umbels ("tufts") of white, red, or purplish flowers
- canefield — A field where cane is grown.
- card file — a collection of cards containing data or records, arranged systematically, as in alphabetical order, in boxes or drawers
- carnified — Simple past tense and past participle of carnify.
- catfished — Simple past tense and past participle of catfish.
- catfooted — having feet resembling those of a cat.