5-letter words containing a, d
- baldy — People sometimes refer to a bald person as a baldy, especially if they are talking about them or to them in a friendly or humorous way. Some people might find this offensive.
- baled — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
- banda — Hastings Kamuzu (kæˈmuːzuː). 1906–97, Malawi statesman. As first prime minister of Nyasaland (from 1963), he led his country to independence (1964) as Malawi: president (1966–94)
- bandh — (in India) a general strike
- bando — A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy.
- bands — Plural form of band.
- bandy — If you bandy words with someone, you argue with them.
- baned — Simple past tense and past participle of bane.
- barde — Armor. any of various pieces of defensive armor for a horse.
- bardo — (in Tibetan Buddhism) the state of the soul between its death and its rebirth
- bards — Plural form of bard.
- bardy — defiant; bold; daring
- bared — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
- basad — toward the base.
- based — If you are based in a particular place, that is the place where you live or do most of your work. See also base.
- bated — (of breath) held
- bauds — Plural form of baud.
- bawds — a woman who maintains a brothel; madam.
- bawdy — A bawdy story or joke contains humorous references to sex.
- bayed — a deep, prolonged howl, as of a hound on the scent.
- beads — a necklace
- beady — Beady eyes are small, round, and bright.
- beard — A man's beard is the hair that grows on his chin and cheeks.
- bedad — an exclamation of affirmation
- begad — an emphatic exclamation
- bemad — to cause to become mad
- benda — Julien (ʒyljɑ̃). 1867–1956, French philosopher and novelist, who defended reason and intellect and attacked the influence of Bergson: author of La Trahison des clercs (1927)
- blade — The blade of a knife, axe, or saw is the edge, which is used for cutting.
- bland — If you describe someone or something as bland, you mean that they are rather dull and unexciting.
- blaud — a large amount
- blida — a city in N Algeria, on the edge of the Mitidja Plain. Pop: 269 000 (2005 est)
- board — A board is a flat, thin, rectangular piece of wood or plastic which is used for a particular purpose.
- brady — Mathew B. (ˈmæθju ) ; mat hˈyo̅o) 1823?-96; U.S. photographer, esp. of Lincoln & the Civil War
- braid — Braid is a narrow piece of decorated cloth or twisted threads, which is used to decorate clothes or curtains.
- brand — If someone is branded as something bad, people think they are that thing.
- bread — Bread is a very common food made from flour, water, and yeast.
- breda — a city in the S Netherlands, in North Brabant province: residence of Charles II of England during his exile. Pop: 164 000 (2003 est)
- broad — Something that is broad is wide.
- caddo — a member of any of a group of North American Indian peoples formerly living in Louisiana, Arkansas, and E Texas, now living mainly in Oklahoma
- caddy — a small container, esp for tea
- cadel — An ornate capital letter used in calligraphy consisting of interlacing pen strokes.
- cader — Eastern New England and British. (of the young of animals) abandoned or left by the mother and raised by humans: a cade lamb.
- cades — Plural form of cade.
- cadet — A cadet is a young man or woman who is being trained in the armed services or the police.
- cadge — If someone cadges food, money, or help from you, they ask you for it and succeed in getting it.
- cadgy — cheerful
- cadie — a person in a large town or city in the 18th century who was on the lookout for chance employment, for example, as a messenger
- cadiz — the usual, anglicized spelling of Cádiz
- cadre — A cadre is a small group of people who have been specially chosen, trained, and organized for a particular purpose.
- caged — A caged bird or animal is inside a cage.