10-letter words containing a, b, c
- brick wall — a wall made out of brick
- brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- brickmaker — a person who makes bricks
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- brilliancy — an instance of brilliance: the brilliancies of Congreve's wit.
- bring back — Something that brings back a memory makes you think about it.
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- brno chair — an armchair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless steel composed of two interlocking parts, one forming the legs and arms and the other the seat and back frame, with the back and seat lightly upholstered and usually covered with leather.
- broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
- broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
- brocatelle — a heavy brocade with the design in deep relief, used chiefly in upholstery
- brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
- brown coat — arriccio.
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
- buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- cabalistic — of or relating to the cabala.
- cabanatuan — city in SC Luzon, in the Philippines: pop. 173,000
- cabin crew — The cabin crew on an aircraft are the people whose job is to look after the passengers.
- cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
- cabin hook — a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.
- cabineteer — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of a governmental cabinet.
- cable bend — a knot or clinch for attaching a cable to an anchor or mooring post.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
- cable-laid — (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction
- cablecasts — Plural form of cablecast.
- cablegrams — Plural form of cablegram.
- cablephoto — a photographic image transmitted via cable, especially for use by newspapers or in police work.
- cabo verde — a republic in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa, consisting of a group of ten islands and five islets: an overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, when the islands became independent. Official language: Portuguese. Religion: Christian (Roman Catholic) majority; animist minority. Currency: Cape Verdean escudo. Capital: Praia. Pop: 531 046 (2013 est). Area: 4033 sq km (1557 sq miles)