9-letter words containing d, i
- barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
- 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.
- bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty
- bashed in — crushed or dented from a blow
- 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.
- basifixed — (of an anther) attached to the filament by its base
- bastinade — bastinado.
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bawdiness — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- bdelliums — Plural form of bdellium.
- be rid of — to be freed from or relieved of (something undesirable)
- beachside — situated near a beach
- beam wind — a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.
- bear raid — an attempt to force down the price of a security or commodity by sustained selling
- 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.
- beatitude — supreme blessedness or happiness
- bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
- 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
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- bedecking — Present participle of bedeck.
- bedeviled — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- bedighted — Simple past tense and past participle of bedight.
- bedizened — Dressed up or decorated gaudily.
- bedlamism — anything characteristic of bedlam
- bedlamite — a lunatic; insane person
- bedridden — Someone who is bedridden is so ill or has such a severe disability that they cannot get out of bed.
- bedsitter — A bedsitter is the same as a bedsit.
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- beholding — to observe; look at; see.
- belemnoid — shaped like a dart
- belvidere — a city in N Illinois.
- bendingly — in a curving direction or manner
- 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
- berdichev — a city in W central Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- berg wind — a hot dry wind in South Africa blowing from the plateau down to the coast
- 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.
- bestirred — to stir up; rouse to action (often used reflexively): She bestirred herself at the first light of morning.
- bethsaida — a ruined town in N Israel, near the N shore of the Sea of Galilee
- beveridge — William Henry, 1st Baron Beveridge. 1879–1963, British economist, whose Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) formed the basis of social-security legislation in Britain