7-letter words containing d
- axebird — a nightjar of northern Queensland and New Guinea with a cry that sounds like a chopping axe
- axehead — Alternative spelling of axe head.
- axelrod — Julius. 1912–2004, US neuropharmacologist, renowned for his work on catecholamines. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (with von Euler and Bernard Katz) 1970
- aykroyd — Dan. born 1952, Canadian film actor and screenwriter, best known for the television show Saturday Night Live (1975–80) and the films The Blues Brothers (1980), Ghostbusters (1984), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- aylward — Gladys. 1903–70, English missionary in China
- ayodhya — an ancient town in N India, in Uttar Pradesh state: as the birthplace of Rama it is sacred to Hindus; also a Buddhist centre
- azo dye — any of a class of artificial dyes that contain the azo group. They are usually red, brown, or yellow and are obtained from aromatic amines
- b and d — bondage and discipline: used in reference to sadomasochistic sexual practices.
- b and e — Law. the crime of breaking and entering: two of the elements of the crime of burglary.
- b and s — a dance held for young people in country areas, usually in a field or barn
- b and w — (of a motion picture, photograph, drawing, etc.) black and white, as distinguished from color.
- b-grade — A B-grade person or thing is one that you consider to be inferior or of poor quality.
- babbled — Simple past tense and past participle of babble.
- babudom — the rule of babus
- bacardi — a cocktail made with Bacardi rum, grenadine, and lime juice.
- backend — Alternative form of back end.
- bacolod — a town in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Negros Island. Pop: 468 000 (2005 est)
- bad boy — male child: naughty
- bad egg — a bad person
- bad guy — A bad guy is a person in a story or film who is considered to be evil or wicked, or who is fighting on the wrong side. You can also refer to the bad guys in a situation in real life.
- bad man — (sometimes initial capital letters) the devil.
- bad off — If you are bad off, you are in a bad situation.
- bad rap — bum rap.
- badajoz — a city in SW Spain: strategically positioned near the frontier with Portugal. Pop: 138 415 (2003 est)
- badders — (UK, informal) badminton.
- baddest — not good in any manner or degree.
- baddies — a villainous or criminal person.
- baddish — rather bad; not very good.
- badgers — Plural form of badger.
- badging — Present participle of badge.
- badious — chestnut coloured; brownish-red
- badland — Alternative form of badlands.
- badmash — naughty or bad
- badness — not good in any manner or degree.
- baffled — lacking in understanding
- baganda — a Negroid people of E Africa living chiefly in Uganda
- baghdad — the capital of Iraq, on the River Tigris: capital of the Abbasid Caliphate (762–1258). Pop: 5 910 000 (2005 est)
- bagnold — Enid (Algerine). 1889–1981, British novelist and playwright; her works include the novel National Velvet (1935) and the play The Chalk Garden (1955)
- bahadur — a title formerly conferred by the British on distinguished Indians
- bajadas — Plural form of bajada.
- balanda — (Australian Aboriginal, Arnhem Land) a white person, a European.
- baldest — Superlative form of bald.
- baldies — a bald person (sometimes used as a facetious term of address).
- balding — Someone who is balding is beginning to lose the hair on the top of their head.
- baldish — Somewhat bald; balding.
- baldric — a wide silk sash or leather belt worn over the right shoulder to the left hip for carrying a sword, etc
- baldwin — James Arthur. 1924–87, US Black writer, whose works include the novel Go Tell it on the Mountain (1954)
- ballade — a verse form consisting of three stanzas and an envoy, all ending with the same line. The first three stanzas commonly have eight or ten lines each and the same rhyme scheme
- ballads — Plural form of ballad.
- ballard — J(ames) G(raham). 1930–2009, British novelist, born in China; his books include Crash (1973), The Unlimited Dream Company (1979), Empire of the Sun (1984), Cocaine Nights (1996), and Super-Cannes (2000)