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10-letter words containing a, b, t, e, r

  • sugar beet — various cultivars of a beet, Beta vulgaris, of the amaranth family, having a white root, cultivated for the sugar it yields.
  • svetambara — one of the two principal Jain sects, whose members wear white and believe that women can attain salvation.
  • sweetbread — Also called stomach sweetbread. the pancreas of an animal, especially a calf or a lamb, used for food.
  • tabernacle — any place or house of worship, especially one designed for a large congregation.
  • table corn — Chiefly Eastern U.S. sweet corn.
  • tabularize — to tabulate.
  • tailorable — capable of being made into clothing: tailorable fabrics.
  • talebearer — a person who spreads gossip, secrets, etc., that may cause trouble or harm.
  • tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.
  • tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
  • tannenberg — a village formerly in East Prussia, now in N Poland: major German victory over the Russians 1914.
  • targetable — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
  • tax burden — the amount of tax paid by a person, company, or country in a specified period considered as a proportion of total income in that period.
  • tax rebate — repayment of money paid as tax
  • tea-bagger — Slang. a person who tea-bags a sexual partner.
  • teddy bear — a toy bear, especially a stuffed one.
  • temperable — a particular state of mind or feelings.
  • temple bar — a former London gateway before the Temple buildings: the heads of executed traitors and criminals were exhibited on it
  • tenderable — capable of being tendered or offered in payment, as money or goods.
  • terminable — capable of being terminated.
  • terra alba — any of various white, earthy or powdery substances, as pipe clay, gypsum, kaolin, or magnesia.
  • tetherball — a game for two persons, in which each player, standing on each side of a post from the top of which a ball is suspended by a cord, hits the ball with the hand or a paddle in a direction opposite to that in which the other player hits it, the object being to coil the cord completely around the post.
  • tetrabasic — (of an acid) having four atoms of hydrogen replaceable by basic atoms or groups.
  • tetrabrach — a metrical foot or word of four short syllables.
  • the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
  • the boards — the acting profession; the stage
  • the breaks — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
  • the rabbis — the early Jewish scholars whose teachings are recorded in the Talmud
  • the rabble — the common people
  • thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
  • third base — the third in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate.
  • threadbare — having the nap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of the warp and woof, as a fabric, garment, etc.
  • thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
  • tidal bore — an abrupt rise of tidal water moving rapidly inland from the mouth of an estuary.
  • tiebreaker — a system for breaking a tie score at the end of regulation play by establishing a winner through special additional play, usually of a fairly short duration, as in tennis and soccer.
  • tier table — a stand having a number of round shelves, one on top of the other.
  • tiger balm — a mentholated ointment widely used as a panacea
  • timberhead — the top end of a timber, rising above the deck and serving for belaying ropes.
  • timberjack — a person whose occupation is logging; logger.
  • timberlake — Justin. born 1981, US pop singer; a member of the boy band NSYNC, he later found success with the bestselling solo album Justified (2002)
  • timberland — land covered with timber-producing forests.
  • timberyard — an establishment where timber and sometimes other building materials are stored or sold
  • tithe barn — a large barn where, formerly, the agricultural tithe of a parish was stored
  • tote board — a totalizator.
  • trabeculae — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
  • trabecular — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
  • trace back — identify origin, owner
  • trade bill — a bill of exchange drawn on and accepted (trade acceptance) by a trader in payment for goods
  • trade book — a book designed for the general public and available through an ordinary book dealer, as distinguished from a limited-edition book, textbook, mass market paperback, etc.
  • trail bike — off-road motorcycle
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