10-letter words containing a, c, d, e
- backspaced — Simple past tense and past participle of backspace.
- backvelder — a person who lives in a backveld
- backwinded — Simple past tense and past participle of backwind.
- bad cheque — A bad cheque is a bank cheque that will not be paid because there is a mistake on it, or because there is not enough money in the account of the person who wrote the cheque.
- bald-faced — barefaced (def 2).
- banda aceh — a city in N Indonesia, in N Sumatra; the capital of Aceh region; suffered badly in the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004. Pop: 154 767 (2000)
- 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.
- 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.
- barenecked — Having the neck bare.
- 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.
- barricaded — a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
- barricades — Plural form of barricade.
- batch mode — computer processing in which commands are input from a batch file, not interactively
- beachheads — Plural form of beachhead.
- bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
- bedchamber — A bedchamber is a bedroom.
- bench-made — (of articles made of leather, wood, etc.) individually produced and finished, as on a carpenter's bench; custom-made.
- beta decay — the radioactive transformation of an atomic nucleus accompanying the emission of an electron. It involves unit change of atomic number but none in mass number
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black code — any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black lead — to colour or rub with black lead
- blackbeard — nickname of (Edward) Teach
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- breakdance — to perform break dancing.
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
- broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
- cable bend — a knot or clinch for attaching a cable to an anchor or mooring post.
- cable-laid — (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction
- cabo verde — a republic in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa, consisting of a group of ten islands and five islets: an overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, when the islands became independent. Official language: Portuguese. Religion: Christian (Roman Catholic) majority; animist minority. Currency: Cape Verdean escudo. Capital: Praia. Pop: 531 046 (2013 est). Area: 4033 sq km (1557 sq miles)
- cackhanded — left-handed
- cacodaemon — Wicked or malevolent spirit as opposed to agathodemon (a good spirit).
- cacodemons — Plural form of cacodemon.
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.
- cad system — A CAD system is a computer system for designing parts or products before they are manufactured.
- cadaverine — a toxic diamine with an unpleasant smell, produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Formula: NH2(CH2)5NH2