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9-letter words containing s, t, d

  • balladist — someone who composes or performs ballads
  • ballasted — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
  • band list — a list of Canadian Indians formally recognized as belonging to a band
  • bandmates — Plural form of bandmate.
  • bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
  • bandstand — A bandstand is a platform with a roof where a military band or a brass band can play in the open air.
  • baptisand — Alternative spelling of baptizand.
  • bastardly — of no value; worthless.
  • bastardry — malicious or cruel behaviour
  • bastinade — bastinado.
  • bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
  • bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
  • be seated — to assume a seated position; sit down
  • bead test — a laboratory test used in the identification of certain metals or metal constituents, in which a bead covered with the material is heated in a flame and cooled to observe its properties.
  • beadblast — a jet of small glass beads blown from a nozzle under air or steam pressure
  • beasthood — the state of beasts, the condition of being a beast
  • bed stone — the fixed lower member of a pair of millstones. Compare runner (def 12).
  • bed-stand — night table.
  • bedplates — Plural form of bedplate.
  • bedsheets — Plural form of bedsheet.
  • bedsitter — A bedsitter is the same as a bedsit.
  • bedsteads — Plural form of bedstead.
  • bedstraws — Plural form of bedstraw.
  • bestirred — to stir up; rouse to action (often used reflexively): She bestirred herself at the first light of morning.
  • bethsaida — a ruined town in N Israel, near the N shore of the Sea of Galilee
  • bierstadt — Albert1830-1902; U.S. painter, born in Germany
  • bird shot — small-sized shot used for shooting birds.
  • blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
  • bloodlust — If you say that someone is driven by a bloodlust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
  • bloodshot — If your eyes are bloodshot, the parts that are usually white are red or pink. Your eyes can be bloodshot for a variety of reasons, for example because you are tired or you have drunk too much alcohol.
  • blustered — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
  • bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
  • bolstered — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
  • bondstone — a long stone or brick laid in a wall as a header
  • bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
  • 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.
  • broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
  • bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
  • bud stick — a shoot of a plant from which buds are cut for the propagation of that plant.
  • bull dust — fine dust
  • 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
  • bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
  • 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
  • burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
  • bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
  • cab stand — A cab stand is a place where taxis wait for passengers, for example, at an airport or outside a station.
  • cabstands — Plural form of cabstand.
  • cadastral — Surveying. (of a map or survey) showing or including boundaries, property lines, etc.
  • cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
  • cardstock — paper stock stiff enough for the printing of business cards and similar uses.
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