10-letter words containing a, d, r, e
- authorised — Alternative spelling of authorized.
- authorized — officially permitted or empowered
- autodialer — An electronic device that dials telephone numbers randomly or from a list and may also leave messages and request information.
- autoloader — stack loader
- autowinder — a battery-operated device for advancing the film in a camera automatically after each exposure
- avantgarde — the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
- avvogadore — an official Venetian criminal prosecutor
- award wage — (in Australia and New Zealand) statutory minimum pay for a particular group of workers
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- back order — an order to be filled when stock is renewed
- back-order — to treat as a back order: We have to back-order your sofa until the new fabric arrives.
- backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
- backhander — A backhander is an amount of money that is illegally paid to someone in a position of authority in order to encourage them to do something.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backvelder — a person who lives in a backveld
- bad breath — halitosis.
- bad mester — a term for the devil, used when speaking to children
- bainbridge — Beryl.1934–2010, British novelist and playwright. Novels include The Dressmaker (1973), Injury Time (1977), Master Georgie (1998), and According to Queeney (2001)
- 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 brake — a brake using a brake band.
- banderilla — a decorated barbed dart, thrust into the bull's neck or shoulder
- banderoles — Plural form of banderole.
- bandleader — A bandleader is the person who conducts a band, especially a jazz band.
- bandmaster — the conductor of a band
- bandoleers — Plural form of bandoleer.
- bandoleros — Plural form of bandolero.
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- banistered — Simple past tense and past participle of banister.
- bankrolled — money in one's possession; monetary resources.
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- 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.
- barbarized — Simple past tense and past participle of barbarize.
- bardolater — someone who practises bardolatry
- 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.
- barefooted — Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
- barehanded — without weapons, tools, etc
- bareheaded — Someone who is bareheaded is not wearing a hat or any other covering on their head.
- barelegged — having uncovered legs
- barenecked — Having the neck bare.
- bargeboard — a board, often decorated with carved ornaments, placed along the gable end of a roof
- 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.
- barneveldt — ˈJan van Olden (ˌjɑnˈvɑn ɔldən ) ; yänˌvän ôlˈdən) 1547-1619; Du. statesman & patriot
- barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
- barrelhead — the round and flat end of a barrel
- barricaded — a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
- barricades — Plural form of barricade.
- bartenders — Plural form of bartender.