9-letter words containing i, l, d
- biradical — a molecule with two centres
- bird call — a sound made by a bird.
- bird walk — an excursion, usually undertaken as a group with an expert leader, for observing and studying birds in their natural habitat.
- 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".
- blackbird — A blackbird is a common European bird. The male has black feathers and a yellow beak, and the female has brown feathers.
- bladelike — resembling a blade
- blemished — You use blemished to describe something such as someone's skin or a piece of fruit when its appearance is spoiled by small marks.
- blennioid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Blennioidea, a large suborder of small mainly marine spiny-finned fishes having an elongated body with reduced pelvic fins. The group includes the blennies, butterfish, and gunnel
- blind bid — an offer on the part of a big investor to buy a number of different stocks without knowing exactly which stocks are included in the package
- blind gut — cecum
- blind pig — speak-easy
- 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.
- blindheim — Blenheim
- 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.
- blindworm — a legless lizard (Anguis fragilis) of the Old World; slowworm: it has very small eyes and a snakelike body that is usually brownish
- blinkered — A blinkered view, attitude, or approach is narrow and does not take into account other people's opinions. A blinkered person has this kind of attitude.
- blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- blizzardy — characterized by blizzards, or resembling a blizzard
- bloodlike — resembling blood
- bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
- bluefield — a city in SW West Virginia.
- boardlike — resembling a board
- bobadilla — Francisco de [frahn-thees-kaw th e,, -sees-] /frɑnˈθis kɔ ðɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), died 1502, Spanish colonial governor in the West Indies: sent Columbus back to Spain in chains.
- bobtailed — having the tail cut short
- body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
- boieldieu — François Adrien [frahn-swa a-dree-an] /frɑ̃ˈswa a driˈɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1775–1834, French composer.
- boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
- bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- bridewell — a house of correction; jail, esp for minor offences
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- broadbill — any passerine bird of the family Eurylaimidae, of tropical Africa and Asia, having bright plumage and a short wide bill
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- broadtail — the highly valued black wavy fur obtained from the skins of newly born karakul lambs; caracul
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- bromfield — Louis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
- buildable — suitable for building on
- builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
- bullycide — the act or an instance of killing oneself intentionally as a result of bullying
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- butt-dial — Also, butt dial. a call made in this way: Sorry, it must have been a butt-dial.
- cablelaid — noting a rope formed of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction; hawser-laid.
- cacodylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the cacodyl group.
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)