10-letter words containing a, b, c
- archbishop — In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches, an archbishop is a bishop of the highest rank, who is in charge of all the bishops and priests in a particular country or region.
- archiblast — egg protoplasm
- arcimboldi — Giuseppe [juh-sep-ee;; Italian joo-zep-pe] /dʒəˈsɛp i;; Italian dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1527–93, Italian painter.
- arcimboldo — Giuseppe. 1527–93, Italian painter, best remembered for painting grotesque figures composed of fruit, vegetables, and meat
- arcubalist — an arbalest
- asarabacca — a perennial evergreen Eurasian plant, Asarum europaeum, having kidney-shaped leaves and a single brownish flower: family Aristolochiaceae
- ascendable — having the ability to be ascended
- ascendible — Capable of being ascended; climbable.
- ascerbated — Simple past tense and past participle of ascerbate.
- ascorbates — Plural form of ascorbate.
- ascribable — to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
- aspectable — having the ability to be seen
- associable — that can be associated or connected in the mind
- athabascan — a family of languages spoken by American Indians in most of inland northwest Canada and Alaska, in coastal Oregon and California, and in Arizona and the Rio Grande basin, and including especially Navajo, Apache, and Chipewyan. Compare family (def 14).
- attachable — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- attackable — Which may be attacked.
- attic base — (in classical architecture) a base for a column, consisting of an upper and a lower torus separated by a scotia between two fillets.
- autophobic — Of or pertaining to autophobia.
- avouchable — able to be avouched
- b particle — B meson.
- baby coach — a baby carriage.
- baby-faced — having a smooth round face like a baby's
- bacchanals — Plural form of bacchanal.
- bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- bacillemia — the presence of bacilli in the blood.
- bacilluria — the presence of bacilli in the urine
- bacitracin — an antibiotic used mainly in treating bacterial skin infections: obtained from the bacterium Bacillus subtilis
- back alley — dirty, unprepossessing, sordid, or clandestine: back-alley morals; back-alley political schemes.
- back bacon — lean bacon from the back of a pig's loin
- back bench — any of the rows of seats occupied by the backbenchers.
- back cover — the back part of the cover of a book or magazine
- back float — a floating position on one's back with arms extended out to the sides and face upward.
- back focus — the distance between the back surface of a lens and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
- back forty — remote, usually uncultivated acreage on a large piece of land, as on a farm or ranch.
- back green — grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
- back issue — A back issue of a magazine or newspaper is one that was published some time ago and is not the most recent.
- back judge — an official who makes rulings regarding pass receptions, field goals, etc.
- back light — light falling on a photographic or television subject from the rear
- back order — an order to be filled when stock is renewed
- back quote — (character) "`" ASCII code 96. Common names: left quote; left single quote; open quote; ITU-T: grave accent; grave. Rare: backprime; INTERCAL: backspark; unapostrophe; birk; blugle; back tick; back glitch; push; ITU-T: opening single quotation mark; quasiquote. Back quote is used in Unix shells to invoke command substitution.
- back river — a river in N Canada, flowing northeast through Nunavut to the Arctic Ocean. Length: about 966 km (600 miles)
- back score — a line at each end of the rink parallel to and equidistant from the foot score and the sweeping score.
- back shaft — a spindle carrying back gears.
- back shift — a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
- back slang — a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards
- back staff — an obsolete instrument for determining the altitude of the sun by facing away from the sun, sighting upon the horizon, adjusting a cursor until its shadow falls upon the sight through which the horizon appears, and measuring the resulting arc.
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- back tooth — a tooth in the back of your jaw
- back vowel — a vowel whose sound is produced in the back of the mouth or the throat