9-letter words containing d, o, a, b
- backboard — In basketball, the backboard is the flat board above each of the baskets.
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- backdowns — Plural form of backdown.
- backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
- backorder — Commerce. an order or part of an order waiting to be filled.
- backroads — Plural form of backroad.
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- backsword — a person who uses the backsword
- backwoods — If you refer to an area as the backwoods, you mean that it is a long way from large towns and is isolated from modern life.
- backwords — Plural form of backword.
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
- bad blood — If you say that there is bad blood between people, you mean that they have argued about something and dislike each other.
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- badly off — If you are badly off, you are in a bad situation.
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- bail bond — a surety bond (money or property) offered or deposited by a defendant or other persons to ensure the defendant's appearance at trial
- bakeboard — a board on which bread dough is rolled and kneaded
- bakegoods — baked goods, as bread, cakes, or pies.
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- baldmoney — Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.
- ballooned — Simple past tense and past participle of balloon.
- ballotade — a movement similar to a croupade except that the horse draws in its hind legs so that the iron of the shoes is visible.
- balsawood — The wood of the balsa tree.
- band-role — a small flag or streamer fastened to a lance, masthead, etc.
- bandalore — an old-fashioned type of yo-yo
- bandboxes — Plural form of bandbox.
- banderole — a long narrow flag, usually with forked ends, esp one attached to the masthead of a ship; pennant
- bandicoot — any agile terrestrial marsupial of the family Peramelidae of Australia and New Guinea. They have a long pointed muzzle and a long tail and feed mainly on small invertebrates
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- bandoleer — a broad belt worn over one shoulder and across the chest, with pockets for carrying ammunition, etc.
- bandolero — a highwayman; a robber
- bandolier — a soldier's broad shoulder belt having small pockets or loops for cartridges
- bandoline — a glutinous hair dressing, used (esp formerly) to keep the hair in place
- bandoneon — a type of square concertina, esp used in Argentina
- bandwagon — You can refer to an activity or movement that has suddenly become fashionable or popular as a bandwagon.
- bar chord — a musical chord that is played on a stringed instrument using the barré technique.
- baracaldo — city in The Basque Country, N Spain: pop. 105,000
- barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
- bardolino — a light dry red wine produced around Verona in NE Italy
- bareboned — short of resources
- barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
- barn door — an adjustable flap over the front of a studio or theatre lamp
- barnboard — barnwood.
- barr body — a structure found on the inside of the nuclear membrane of female cells that takes a dark stain and indicates by its presence the sex of the individual
- barricado — a barricade.
- bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty
- base load — the more or less constant part of the total load on an electrical power-supply system