10-letter words containing a, d, l, e, s
- backlashed — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backpedals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backpedal.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- balderdash — If you say that something that has been said or written is balderdash, you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
- balladeers — Plural form of balladeer.
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- band shell — an outdoor platform for concerts, having a concave, nearly hemispherical back serving as a sounding board
- banderoles — Plural form of banderole.
- bandoleers — Plural form of bandoleer.
- bandoleros — Plural form of bandolero.
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- bangladesh — a republic in S Asia: formerly the Eastern Province of Pakistan; became independent in 1971 after civil war and the defeat of Pakistan by India; consists of the plains and vast deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers; prone to flooding: economy based on jute and jute products (over 70 per cent of world production); a member of the Commonwealth. Language: Bengali. Religion: Muslim. Currency: taka. Capital: Dhaka. Pop: 163 654 860 (2013 est). Area: 142 797 sq km (55 126 sq miles)
- basel-land — a demicanton in N Switzerland. 165 sq. mi. (425 sq. km). Capital: Liestal.
- bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
- bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- blade slap — the regular noise beat generated by the rotor blades of a helicopter
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- blues band — a band that plays the blues
- bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- broad seal — the official seal of a nation and its government
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- canefields — Plural form of canefield.
- capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.
- capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
- capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- cardcastle — a tower built with playing cards
- cased hole — A cased hole is the part of the wellbore with metal casing and cementing.
- casseroled — Cooked in a casserole.
- castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
- cathedrals — Plural form of cathedral.
- cavalcades — Plural form of cavalcade.
- celandines — Plural form of celandine.
- child seat — a type of child restraint consisting of a seat with safety features
- childermas — Holy Innocents Day, Dec 28
- clarksdale — a city in NW Mississippi.
- classified — Classified information or documents are officially secret.
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- climatised — to acclimate to a new environment.
- cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
- cloudscape — a picturesque formation of clouds