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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
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