10-letter words containing a, b, e, t, d
- bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
- 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
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
- billethead — a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- bird table — A bird table is a small wooden platform on a pole which some people put in their garden in order to put food for the birds on it.
- birth-date — the date of a person’s birth, usually expressed as a specific day, month, and year.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- bladdernut — any temperate shrub or small tree of the genus Staphylea, esp S. pinnata of S Europe, that has bladder-like seed pods: family Staphyleaceae
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- blood heat — Blood heat is a temperature of 37°C, which is about the same as the normal temperature of the human body.
- bonnethead — a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, found in shallow waters from Brazil to Massachusetts, having a spade-shaped head.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
- bottlehead — bottlenose (def 2).
- bradstreet — Anne (Dudley). ?1612–72, US poet, born in England: regarded as the first significant US poet
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- 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.
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- 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.
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- 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.
- 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.
- calibrated — marked with units
- carbolated — containing carbolic acid
- carbonated — Carbonated drinks are drinks that contain small bubbles of carbon dioxide.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- card table — A card table is a small light table which can be folded up and which is sometimes used for playing games of cards on.
- celebrated — A celebrated person or thing is famous and much admired.
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- creditable — A creditable performance or achievement is of a reasonably high standard.
- creditably — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
- crib death — Crib death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- d'alembert — Jean Le Rond (ʒɑ̃ lə rɔ̃). 1717–83, French mathematician, physicist, and rationalist philosopher, noted for his contribution to Newtonian physics in Traité de dynamique (1743) and for his collaboration with Diderot in editing the Encyclopédie
- dagobert i — a.d. 602?–639, Merovingian king of the Franks 628–639.
- dealbation — the process of bleaching or making white
- death bell — a bell tolled to announce a death
- death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.