10-letter words containing a, b, e, d
- bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread
- bread roll — a small piece of bread dough made into a circular shape and baked
- bread shop — a baker's shop
- breadberry — bread soaked in water or milk
- breadboard — A breadboard is a flat piece of wood used for cutting bread on.
- breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
- breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- break wind — to emit wind from the anus
- breakdance — to perform break dancing.
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
- brian reid — (person) The person who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with John Gilmore.
- bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
- bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
- bridezilla — a woman whose behaviour in planning the details of her wedding is regarded as intolerable
- bridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- bridgehead — A bridgehead is a good position which an army has taken in the enemy's territory and from which it can advance or attack.
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- brigandage — plundering by brigands
- brigandine — a coat of mail, invented in the Middle Ages to increase mobility, consisting of metal rings or sheets sewn on to cloth or leather
- broad bean — Broad beans are flat round beans that are light green in colour and are eaten as a vegetable.
- broad seal — the official seal of a nation and its government
- 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
- broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
- brood mare — a mare kept for breeding purposes
- bubblehead — a frivolous person
- bubs grade — a baby
- 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.
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- bufflehead — a small North American diving duck, Bucephala (or Glaucionetta) albeola: the male has black-and-white plumage and a fluffy head
- bullethead — a head considered similar in shape to a bullet, as that of a person with a high, domelike forehead and cranium and short hair.
- bullheaded — blindly stubborn; headstrong
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- butt heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
- butt-naked — completely naked
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
- cable bend — a knot or clinch for attaching a cable to an anchor or mooring post.
- cable-laid — (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction