8-letter words containing a, b, d
- broadway — a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US
- brocaded — fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
- brodiaea — any of several plants belonging to the genus Brodiaea, of the amaryllis family, native to western North America, having grasslike basal leaves and clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- brossard — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- browband — the strap of a horse's bridle that goes across the forehead
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- bud vase — a relatively tall, slender vase, usually footed, for holding a single, stemmed flower, usually a rosebud
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- buddleia — any ornamental shrub of the genus Buddleia, esp B. davidii, which has long spikes of mauve flowers and is frequently visited by butterflies: family Buddleiaceae
- bulkhead — A bulkhead is a wall which divides the inside of a ship or aeroplane into separate sections.
- bullhead — any of various small northern mainly marine scorpaenoid fishes of the family Cottidae that have a large head covered with bony plates and spines
- bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- butthead — a stupid person
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- cabbaged — Chiefly British. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cabstand — a taxi rank
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cambered — Having camber.
- cambodia — a country in SE Asia: became part of French Indochina in 1887; achieved self-government in 1949 and independence in 1953; civil war (1970–74) ended in victory for the Khmer Rouge, who renamed the country Kampuchea (1975) and carried out extreme-radical political and economic reforms resulting in a considerable reduction of the population; Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and set up a pro-Vietnamese government who reverted (1981) to the name Cambodia; after Vietnamese withdrawal in 1989 a peace settlement with exiled factions was followed in 1993 by the adoption of a democratic monarchist constitution restoring Prince Sihanouk to the throne. The country contains the central plains of the Mekong River and the Cardamom Mountains in the SW. Official language: Khmer; French is also widely spoken. Currency: riel. Capital: Phnom Penh. Pop: 15 205 539 (2013 est). Area: 181 000 sq km (69 895 sq miles)
- camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
- carabids — Plural form of carabid.
- carboard — (slang) A sport where a rider is towed behind a vehicle. In many ways it encompasses a lot of the aspects of winching in that it has a 'go anywhere' approach. It can in essence occur behind any vehicle assuming that it has sufficient horse power, torque and traction, but the most popular vehicles remain four wheel drives and tractors.
- carlsbad — a town in S California.
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- cb radio — a device that transmits and receives radio signals only within a designated band of frequencies. Compare Citizens Band.
- chad box — (hardware) (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
- clubhead — the head of a golf club
- clubland — A city's clubland is the area that contains all the best nightclubs.
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- crabwood — a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis
- cuboidal — Also, cuboidal. resembling a cube in form.
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- d'albert — Eugen [German oi-geyn] /German ɔɪˈgeɪn/ (Show IPA), or Eugène [French œ-zhen] /French œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Francis Charles, 1864–1932, German-French pianist and composer, born in Scotland.
- d'arblay — Madame Frances, Burney, Frances.
- dab hand — In British English, if you are a dab hand at something, you are very good at doing it.
- dabblers — Plural form of dabbler.
- dabbling — the fact of being involved in an activity in a frivolous or superficial way
- dabchick — any of several small grebes of the genera Podiceps and Podilymbus, such as Podiceps ruficollis of the Old World
- dabsters — Plural form of dabster.
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- dahabeah — a houseboat used on the Nile