10-letter words containing a, b, e, c
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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)
- cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
- cacao bean — a seed of the cacao tree.
- calabashes — Plural form of calabash.
- calabooses — Plural form of calaboose.
- calcinable — able to be calcined
- calciphobe — calcifuge.
- calculable — Calculable amounts or consequences can be calculated.
- calibrated — marked with units
- calibrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calibrate.
- camberwell — a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Southwark.
- campobello — an island in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of SE Canada: part of New Brunswick province. Pop: 1195 (2001). Area: about 52 sq km (20 sq miles)
- cancelable — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- cancelbots — Plural form of cancelbot.
- candelabra — A candelabra is an ornamental holder for two or more candles.
- candlebeam — a medieval chandelier formed of crossed timbers.
- canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
- cantabiles — Plural form of cantabile.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- capable of — susceptible of; admitting of; open to
- cape blanc — a headland in N Tunisia: the northernmost point of Africa
- capsizable — able to be capsized
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- car bomber — someone who hides a bomb under or in a car
- carabineer — a soldier armed with a carbine
- carabinero — a Chilean police officer
- carabiners — Plural form of carabiner.
- carabinier — (formerly) a soldier armed with a carbine.
- carbapenem — (organic compound) Any of a class of broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotics that are resistant to enzymatic hydrolysis.
- carbineers — Plural form of carbineer.
- carbolated — containing carbolic acid