10-letter words containing a, c, i, d
- arcimboldo — Giuseppe. 1527–93, Italian painter, best remembered for painting grotesque figures composed of fruit, vegetables, and meat
- ascaridole — a liquid, C 10 H 16 O 2 , constituting the active principle of chenopodium oil, used chiefly as a catalyst in polymerization reactions.
- ascendible — Capable of being ascended; climbable.
- associated — If one thing is associated with another, the two things are connected with each other.
- audacities — Plural form of audacity.
- audio disc — an act of recording.
- audiogenic — caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency
- audiologic — of or relating to audiology
- auspicated — Simple past tense and past participle of auspicate.
- autodidact — a person who is self-taught
- auxocardia — enlargement of the heart, as by hypertrophy or dilatation.
- avoidances — Plural form of avoidance.
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- azhdarchid — Any member of the Azhdarchidae, a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the late Cretaceous including some of the largest known flying animals of all time.
- backdating — Present participle of backdate.
- backfilled — Simple past tense and past participle of backfill.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backwinded — Simple past tense and past participle of backwind.
- bacon rind — the outer edge of a slice of bacon, corresponding to the skin of the pig
- baldacchin — A rich, embroidered brocade used for clothing in the Middle Ages, the web being gold and the woof silk.
- baldachins — Plural form of baldachin.
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bardacious — bodacious.
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- barricaded — a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
- barricades — Plural form of barricade.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- bird-watch — to identify wild birds and observe their actions and habits in their natural habitat as a recreation.
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black disc — a conventional black vinyl gramophone record as opposed to a compact disc
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
- boric acid — a white soluble weakly acid crystalline solid used in the manufacture of heat-resistant glass and porcelain enamels, as a fireproofing material, and as a mild antiseptic. Formula: H3BO3
- brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
- cable-laid — (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction
- cadaverine — a toxic diamine with an unpleasant smell, produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Formula: NH2(CH2)5NH2
- caddicefly — caddisfly.
- caddie car — a small light two-wheeled trolley for carrying clubs