10-letter words containing a, b, t, e
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- brigantine — a two-masted sailing ship, rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft with square topsails on the mainmast
- brilliante — with spirit; lively
- 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.
- brocatelle — a heavy brocade with the design in deep relief, used chiefly in upholstery
- browbeaten — intimidated
- browbeater — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bubble tea — a cold drink, originally from Taiwan, of tea infused with fruit flavouring, shaken to produce bubbles, and served over tapioca pearls in a clear cup. It is usually drunk through a very wide straw
- 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
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
- 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.
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
- burst page — banner
- bus master — (architecture) The device in a computer which is driving the address bus and bus control signals at some point in time. In a simple architecture only the (single) CPU can be bus master but this means that all communications between ("slave") I/O devices must involve the CPU. More sophisticated architectures allow other capable devices (or multiple CPUs) to take turns at controling the bus. This allows, for example, a network controller card to access a disk controller directly while the CPU performs other tasks which do not require the bus, e.g. fetching code from its cache. Note that any device can drive data onto the data bus when the CPU reads from that device, but only the bus master drives the address bus and control signals. See also distributed kernel.
- bushbeater — a person who conducts a thorough search to recruit talented people, as for an athletic team.
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- bustamante — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1780–1853, Mexican military and political leader: president 1830–32, 1837–41.
- butane gas — a colourless flammable gaseous alkane that exists in two isomeric forms, both of which occur in natural gas. The stable isomer, n-butane, is used mainly in the manufacture of rubber and fuels (such as Calor Gas). Formula: C4H10
- butt heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
- butt plate — a plate made usually of metal and attached to the butt end of a gunstock
- butt-naked — completely naked
- butterball — a chubby or fat person
- button ear — a dog's ear that folds forward completely.
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- by the way — You say by the way when you add something to what you are saying, especially something that you have just thought of.
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cabineteer — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of a governmental cabinet.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
- cablecasts — Plural form of cablecast.
- cablephoto — a photographic image transmitted via cable, especially for use by newspapers or in police work.
- cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
- calibrated — marked with units
- calibrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calibrate.
- cancelbots — Plural form of cancelbot.
- cantabiles — Plural form of cantabile.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carbolated — containing carbolic acid
- carbonated — Carbonated drinks are drinks that contain small bubbles of carbon dioxide.
- carbonates — a salt or ester of carbonic acid.
- carbonette — a ball of compressed coal dust used as fuel
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
- 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.
- carpetable — Suitable for being carpeted.