10-letter words containing a, b, r, e, d
- banistered — Simple past tense and past participle of banister.
- bankrolled — money in one's possession; monetary resources.
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- bar-le-duc — Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- barbarized — Simple past tense and past participle of barbarize.
- bardolater — someone who practises bardolatry
- bare-faced — You use bare-faced to describe someone's behaviour when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
- barefooted — Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
- barehanded — without weapons, tools, etc
- bareheaded — Someone who is bareheaded is not wearing a hat or any other covering on their head.
- barelegged — having uncovered legs
- barenecked — Having the neck bare.
- bargeboard — a board, often decorated with carved ornaments, placed along the gable end of a roof
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- barn dance — A barn dance is a social event people go to for country dancing.
- barneveldt — ˈJan van Olden (ˌjɑnˈvɑn ɔldən ) ; yänˌvän ôlˈdən) 1547-1619; Du. statesman & patriot
- barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
- barrelhead — the round and flat end of a barrel
- barricaded — a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
- barricades — Plural form of barricade.
- bartenders — Plural form of bartender.
- bartending — to serve or work as a bartender.
- baseboards — Plural form of baseboard.
- bastardise — to lower in condition or worth; debase: hybrid works that neither preserve nor bastardize existing art forms.
- bastardize — to debase; corrupt
- battledore — an ancient racket game
- baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
- be hard on — to treat severely; be harsh toward
- beard moss — any of several green or yellow lichens of the genus Usnea, having long, threadlike stems in a tangled mass typically hanging from tree branches, and growing in a wide range of habitats from tropical zones to the Arctic.
- beard worm — pogonophoran.
- beauregard — P(ierre) G(ustave) T(outant) de1818-93; Confederate general
- beaver dam — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- bedchamber — A bedchamber is a bedroom.
- bedraggled — Someone or something that is bedraggled looks untidy because they have got wet or dirty.
- bedspreads — Plural form of bedspread.
- bedwarmers — Plural form of bedwarmer.
- 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).
- beggarweed — any of various leguminous plants of the genus Desmodium, esp D. purpureum of the Caribbean, grown in the southern US as forage plants and to improve the soil
- bellyboard — a small surfboard, usually 3–4 feet (0.9–1.2 meters) long, for riding waves on one's belly, sometimes used in conjunction with swim fins.
- bernadette — a feminine name
- bernadotte — Folke (ˈfɔlke), Count. 1895–1948, Swedish diplomat, noted for his work with the Red Cross during World War II and as United Nations mediator in Palestine (1948). He was assassinated by Jewish terrorists
- bernardine — a monk of one of the reformed and stricter branches of the Cistercian order
- bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
- biodegrade — to decompose (something)
- 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.
- birkenhead — a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop: 83 729 (2001)