10-letter words containing a, b, t
- backstairs — a secondary staircase in a house, esp one originally for the use of servants
- backstitch — a strong sewing stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle or beginning of the preceding one
- backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
- backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
- backtalker — One who backtalks.
- backtracks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backtrack.
- backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
- bacteremia — the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream
- bacteremic — Of, pertaining to or having bacteremia.
- bacteriol. — bacteriological
- bad breath — halitosis.
- bad mester — a term for the devil, used when speaking to children
- badmouthed — Simple past tense and past participle of badmouth.
- bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
- bagatelles — Plural form of bagatelle.
- baggataway — a form of lacrosse as played originally by the Ojibwa Indians.
- bakersheet — dripping pan.
- baking tin — an open metal container in which dough, cake mixture etc can be placed for baking
- balaustine — of or relating to the pomegranate.
- balbutient — stuttering, stammering
- balconette — a lightly padded bra that is designed to lift and enhance the appearance of a woman's bust
- balibuntal — closely woven fine straw, used for making hats in the Philippines
- ball joint — a mechanical ball-and-socket joint, esp. one used in the steering linkage of certain automotive vehicles to connect the tie rod to either of the wheels that turn
- ballantyne — R(obert) M(ichael). 1825–94, British author, noted for such adventure stories as The Coral Island (1857)
- ballasting — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- ballbuster — Ball-breaker.
- ballistics — Ballistics is the study of the movement of objects that are shot or thrown through the air, such as bullets fired from a gun.
- ballistite — a smokeless rocket propellant composed of roughly equal proportions of the explosives nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine
- balloonist — A balloonist is a person who flies a hot-air balloon.
- ballot box — A ballot box is the box into which ballot papers are put after people have voted.
- ballottine — a kind of galantine made of meat, poultry, or fish that is stuffed and rolled and usually served hot.
- ballpoints — Plural form of ballpoint.
- balneation — the act of bathing
- balopticon — a type of stereopticon for projecting images of objects by reflected light.
- baltic sea — a sea in N Europe, connected with the North Sea by the Skagerrak, Kattegat, and Öresund; shallow, with low salinity and small tides
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- banalities — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- bananaquit — A small songbird with a curved bill, typically with a white stripe over the eye, a sooty gray back, and yellow underparts. It is common in the West Indies and Central and South America.
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bandmaster — the conductor of a band
- bandstands — Plural form of bandstand.
- bandwidths — Plural form of bandwidth.
- banishment — Banishment is the act of banishing someone or the state of being banished.
- banistered — Simple past tense and past participle of banister.
- bank draft — A bank draft is a cheque which you can buy from a bank in order to pay someone who is not willing to accept a personal cheque.
- bank night — Informal. (especially in the 1930s) an evening when prizes are awarded to members of the audience at a motion-picture theater.
- bank vault — a strongroom in a bank for the storage of valuable items
- bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
- 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.
- bannerette — a small banner