10-letter words containing a, b, e, c
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
- blanc fixe — barium sulfate
- blancmange — Blancmange is a cold dessert that is made from milk, sugar, cornflour or corn starch, and flavouring, and looks rather like jelly.
- blast cell — any undifferentiated or immature cell.
- blastocoel — the cavity within a blastula
- blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
- blue crane — the great blue heron.
- blue racer — a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
- blue-black — Something that is blue-black is bluish black in colour.
- bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- bomb lance — a harpoon fitted with an explosive head.
- bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
- bon marche — a bargain.
- bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
- bone china — Bone china is a kind of thin china that contains powdered bone.
- boniface i — Saint, died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
- boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- bottle cap — a device for closing or sealing a bottle, especially a metal cover with a cork gasket fitting tightly over the mouth of a glass or plastic bottle, held in place by crimping the edge of the cap over the lip or flange of the bottle.
- bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- box camera — a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
- brace jack — a triangular piece of wood used for propping up scenery from behind.
- brace root — prop root.
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- branchiate — having gills.
- brass neck — effrontery; nerve
- breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- break camp — to pack up equipment and leave a camp
- breakdance — to perform break dancing.
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
- 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
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- 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
- 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
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great