9-letter words containing ad
- big daddy — someone or something dominantly important, powerful, wealthy, or, often, paternalistic
- bigheaded — Informal. an excessive estimate of one's importance; conceit.
- bin laden — Osama (əʊˈsɑːmə). 1957–2011, Saudi-born leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network: presumed architect of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11 2001. Killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
- biradical — a molecule with two centres
- black pad — a rough road or track
- blackbead — cat's-claw.
- blackhead — Blackheads are small, dark spots on someone's skin caused by blocked pores.
- blacklead — to colour or rub with black lead
- bladdered — intoxicated; drunk
- bladebone — the scapula, or shoulder blade.
- bladeless — without a blade
- bladelike — resembling a blade
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- blockhead — a stupid person
- blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
- 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.
- bosberaad — a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- bradlaugh — Charles. 1833–91, British radical and freethinker: barred from taking his seat in parliament (1880–86) for refusing to take the parliamentary oath
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- brake pad — the flat metal casting, together with the bound friction material, in a disc brake
- bread bin — A bread bin is a wooden, metal, or plastic container for storing bread.
- breadhead — a person who is overly concerned with money
- breadless — without bread; without food
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- breadroom — a room or compartment where bread is kept, esp on a ship
- breadroot — a leguminous plant, Psoralea esculenta, of central North America, having an edible starchy root
- brigadier — A brigadier is a senior officer who is in charge of a brigade in the British armed forces.
- 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.
- broadbill — any passerine bird of the family Eurylaimidae, of tropical Africa and Asia, having bright plumage and a short wide bill
- broadbrim — a broad-brimmed hat, esp one worn by the Quakers in the 17th century
- broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
- broadener — a person who broadens something, a device which broadens something
- broadhead — a flat, triangular, steel arrowhead with sharp edges.
- broadleaf — any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- broadloom — of or designating carpets or carpeting woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams
- broadmoor — an institution in Berkshire, England, for housing and treating mentally ill criminals
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- broadside — A broadside is a strong written or spoken attack on a person or institution.
- broadtail — the highly valued black wavy fur obtained from the skins of newly born karakul lambs; caracul
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- 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
- bullwaddy — a N Australian tree, Macropteranthes kekwickii, growing in dense thickets
- burladero — a safe area for the bull-fighter in a bull ring
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2