10-letter words containing a, b, n, e
- batteilant — fighting; combatant
- battements — Plural form of battement.
- battenburg — an oblong sponge cake divided longitudinally into four square sections, two coloured pink and two yellow, with an outer coating of marzipan
- batterings — Plural form of battering.
- battlement — a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures, originally for shooting through
- baumgarten — Alexander Gottlieb. 1714–62, German philosopher, noted for his pioneering work on aesthetics, a term that he originated
- bay antler — the second branch from the base of a deer's horn
- bayoneting — (US) present participle of bayonet.
- bayonetted — (British) Simple past tense and past participle of bayonet.
- be hard on — to treat severely; be harsh toward
- be in pain — If you are in pain, you feel pain in a part of your body, because you are injured or ill.
- beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
- bead plane — a plane for cutting beads.
- bead plant — a creeping plant, Nertera granadensis, of New Zealand and South America, having leathery leaves and orange-colored, transparent berries.
- beadswoman — a female inhabitant of a beadhouse
- bean aphid — a small, black aphid, Aphis fabae, often found on beans and related plants.
- bean caper — a shrub, Zygophyllum fabago, of E Mediterranean regions, whose flower buds are eaten as a substitute for capers: family Zygophyllaceae
- bean feast — (formerly) an annual dinner or party given by an employer for employees.
- bean goose — a grey goose, Anser fabalis
- bean-feast — (formerly) an annual dinner or party given by an employer for employees.
- beanfeasts — Plural form of beanfeast.
- beanie key — feature key
- beanstalks — Plural form of beanstalk.
- beat up on — If someone beats up on a person or beats on them, they hit or kick the person many times.
- beatboxing — a form of hip-hop music in which the voice is used to simulate percussion instruments
- beatifying — Present participle of beatify.
- beating-up — a physical assault
- beau monde — the world of fashion and society
- beautician — A beautician is a person whose job is giving people beauty treatments such as doing their nails, treating their skin, and putting on their make-up.
- bedazzling — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- bedeswoman — beadswoman
- bee martin — kingbird.
- beforehand — If you do something beforehand, you do it earlier than a particular event.
- beg-pardon — an expression of apology (used especially in the phrase with no beg-pardons).
- behindhand — If someone is behindhand, they have been delayed or have made less progress in their work than they or other people think they should.
- bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
- belladonna — either of two alkaloid drugs, atropine or hyoscyamine, obtained from the leaves and roots of the deadly nightshade
- bellarmine — Saint Robert. 1542–1621, Italian Jesuit theologian and cardinal; an important influence during the Counter-Reformation
- bellhanger — a person who mounts bells
- bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
- bellinzona — a town in SE central Switzerland, capital of Ticino canton. Pop: 16 463 (2000)
- belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
- belly-land — (of an aviator) to land (an aircraft) directly on the fuselage, as because of defective landing gear.
- 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.
- beni hasan — a village in central Egypt, on the Nile, with cliff-cut tombs dating from 2000 bc