9-letter words containing s, i, d
- 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.
- blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- bobsy-die — fuss; confusion; pandemonium (esp in the phrases kick up bobsy-die, play bobsy-die)
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- boot disk — (operating system) The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- boskopoid — of, relating to, or characteristic of Boskop man or the culture or habitat of Boskop man.
- broadside — A broadside is a strong written or spoken attack on a person or institution.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- bud stick — a shoot of a plant from which buds are cut for the propagation of that plant.
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- burnsides — thick side whiskers worn with a moustache and clean-shaven chin
- by design — If something happens or is done by design, someone does it deliberately, rather than by accident.
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- caddishly — in a caddish manner
- cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- caesionid — (zoology) Any member of the Caesionidae.
- cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
- caladiums — Plural form of caladium.
- canadiens — Alternative spelling of Canadiens.
- canalised — to make a canal or canals through.
- canonised — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
- carangids — Plural form of carangid.
- cardigans — Plural form of cardigan.
- cardinals — of prime importance; chief; principal: of cardinal significance.
- caryatids — Plural form of caryatid.
- cascading — Present participle of cascade.
- cashiered — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- catfished — Simple past tense and past participle of catfish.
- caucasoid — denoting, relating to, or belonging to the lighter-complexioned supposed racial group of mankind, which includes the peoples indigenous to Europe, N Africa, SW Asia, and the Indian subcontinent and their descendants in other parts of the world
- caudillos — Plural form of caudillo.
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- cavitands — Plural form of cavitand.
- cd single — a compact disk, usually three inches in diameter, containing one or two popular songs.
- celsitude — the position or stance of dignity or loftiness
- centroids — Plural form of centroid.
- ceramides — Plural form of ceramide.
- chairdays — old age, or the point in life when resting in a chair is the most comfortable way of passing time
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chastised — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- chastized — Simple past tense and past participle of chastize.
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- cherished — clung to, esp when fulfilment is unlikely
- chidlings — the intestines of an animal, esp a pig, prepared as food
- childless — Someone who is childless has no children.
- childness — the nature or character of a child
- childrens — (intentionally incorrect, nonstandard) Plural form of child.