10-letter words containing a, b, e, c
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- benacerraf — Baruj. 1920–2011, Venezuelan-born US immunologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1980) for his work on histocompatibility antigens
- bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
- bench seat — a seat for more than one person
- bench-made — (of articles made of leather, wood, etc.) individually produced and finished, as on a carpenter's bench; custom-made.
- benefactor — A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.
- beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
- benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- benzocaine — a white crystalline ester used as a local anaesthetic; ethyl para-aminobenzoate. Formula: C9H11NO2
- berecyntia — Cybele.
- bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
- beta decay — the radioactive transformation of an atomic nucleus accompanying the emission of an electron. It involves unit change of atomic number but none in mass number
- beta stock — any of the second rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange, of which there are about 500. Continuous display of prices by market makers is required but not immediate publication of transactions
- betacyanin — any one of a group of red nitrogenous pigments found in certain plants, such as beetroot
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- biblioteca — a library.
- bichromate — dichromate
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bienseance — good breeding; decorum
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- bimetallic — consisting of two metals
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- biocellate — (of animals and plants) marked with two eyelike spots or ocelli
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- bioreactor — a machine for growing organisms
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black bean — an Australian leguminous tree, Castanospermum australe, having thin smooth bark and yellow or reddish flowers: used in furniture manufacture
- black bear — the common North American bear (Ursus americanus) that lives in forests and feeds mainly on roots and berries
- black belt — A black belt is worn by someone who has reached a very high standard in a sport such as judo or karate.
- black bile — one of the four bodily humours; melancholy
- black code — any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black heat — heat emitted by an electric element made from low-resistance thick wire that does not glow red
- black hole — Black holes are areas in space, where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. Black holes are thought to be formed by collapsed stars.
- black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
- black lead — to colour or rub with black lead
- black pope — the head of the Jesuit order (so called from the power he once possessed and from the black habit worn by the order).
- black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
- blackbeard — nickname of (Edward) Teach
- blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
- blackfella — an Aborigine or Black person
- blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
- blackheath — a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen
- blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)