10-letter words containing a, d, i, b
- dive table — Often, dive tables. a numerical table used by scuba divers to determine time limits of dives, according to depth, as well as possible decompression delays during ascent and requisite surface intervals between dives.
- diyarbakir — a city in SE Turkey in Asia, on the Tigris River.
- doggie bag — If you ask for a doggie bag in a restaurant, you ask for any food you have not eaten to be put into a bag for you to take home.
- dollarbird — a common roller, Eurystomus orientalis, of Asia and Australia, having on its wings a silvery spot the size of a dollar.
- drabbiness — the quality or characteristic of being drab
- drainboard — a working surface beside or on a kitchen sink, formed and inclined to drain into the sink.
- drawbridge — a bridge of which the whole or a section may be drawn up, let down, or drawn aside, to prevent access or to leave a passage open for boats, barges, etc.
- dronabinol — Synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol.
- drug habit — addiction to recreational drugs
- dubitation — doubt.
- dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- duplicable — capable of being duplicated.
- durability — able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- dyeability — Quality or degree of being dyeable.
- early bird — a person who rises at an early hour.
- endamoebic — relating to endamebae
- eradicable — Capable of being eradicated.
- fabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- faisalabad — a city in NE Pakistan: commercial and manufacturing centre of a cotton- and wheat-growing region; university (1961). Pop: 2 533 000 (2005 est)
- fassbinder — Rainer Werner [rahy-ner] /ˈraɪ nər/ (Show IPA), 1946–82, German film actor and director.
- fatbrained — slow-witted, stupid
- fiberboard — a building material made of wood or other plant fibers compressed and cemented into rigid sheets.
- fibreboard — (British, Canada) A material made from wood chips or shavings, which are compressed and bonded with resin and formed into stiff sheets, often laminated with melamine, and used in building or making furniture.
- fiddleback — something shaped like a fiddle.
- film badge — a badgelike device that, when processed, indicates whether a dose of radiation has been received: worn by workers subject to radiation exposure.
- fimbriated — Having a fringe or border of hairlike or fingerlike projections.
- fireboards — Plural form of fireboard.
- firebrands — Plural form of firebrand.
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- gabardines — Plural form of gabardine.
- garibaldis — Plural form of garibaldi.
- globalised — Simple past tense and past participle of globalise.
- globalized — to extend to other or all parts of the globe; make worldwide: efforts to globalize the auto industry.
- gold basis — a gold standard as a basis for prices.
- gold braid — a gold-coloured braid which is used to decorate uniforms
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
- habituated — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- haidarabad — a former state in S India, now part of Andhra Pradesh, Mysore, and Maharashtra.
- halberdier — a soldier, guard, or attendant armed with a halberd.
- half-blind — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- hand basin — sink for washing hands
- harborside — bordering a harbor.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.
- hibernated — Simple past tense and past participle of hibernate.
- high board — a diving board three meters above the water.