9-letter words containing n, a, r, b, d
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brand new — entirely new.
- brand-new — A brand-new object is completely new.
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- brandreth — a gridiron, iron trivet, or tripod
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- bread bin — A bread bin is a wooden, metal, or plastic container for storing bread.
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- brigading — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- broadband — Broadband is a method of sending many electronic messages at the same time, using a wide range of frequencies.
- broadener — a person who broadens something, a device which broadens something
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- bundaberg — a town in E Australia, near the E coast of Queensland: centre of a sugar-growing area, with a nearby deep-water port. Pop: 44 556 (2001)
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- byrd land — a part of Antarctica, east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea: claimed for the US by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1929, though all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- candy bar — A candy bar is a long, thin, sweet food, usually covered in chocolate.
- carbonade — a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer
- carbonado — a piece of meat, fish, etc, scored and grilled
- cediranib — A potent inhibitor of VEGF receptor tyrosine kinases, under development as a possible anticancer drug.
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- danburite — a rare mineral, calcium borosilicate, CaB 2 Si 2 O 8 , occurring in pegmatite in yellow or colorless crystals resembling topaz.
- dannebrog — the Danish flag
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- debarring — Present participle of debar.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- dna probe — a technique for identifying a segment of DNA, using a known sequence of nucleotide bases from a DNA strand to detect a complementary sequence in the sample by means of base pairing.
- doorbrand — a hinge having a long strap holding together the planks of a door.
- drabbling — Present participle of drabble.
- drag bunt — an in-motion bunt for a base hit usually attempted by a left-handed batter, who starts for first base while trailing the bat to meet the ball, without squaring around, in order to catch the infield by surprise. Compare sacrifice (def 6).
- drainable — Capable of being drained.
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- dunbarton — former county of W Scotland
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- endurable — Able to be endured; bearable.