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10-letter words containing a, d, r, e

  • borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
  • bradstreet — Anne (Dudley). ?1612–72, US poet, born in England: regarded as the first significant US poet
  • bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
  • bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
  • brain-dead — If someone is declared brain-dead, they have suffered brain death.
  • brake band — a strip of fabric, leather, or metal tightened around a pulley or shaft to act as a brake
  • brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
  • brake drum — the cast-iron drum attached to the hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle fitted with drum brakes
  • brake fade — a gradual loss of braking power resulting from decreased friction between the lining and the drum or disc of the brake and usually caused by overheating.
  • brake-fade — the decrease in efficiency of braking of a motor vehicle due to overheating of the brakes
  • brand name — The brand name of a product is the name the manufacturer gives it and under which it is sold.
  • brand-name — having or being a brand name: nationally known brand-name food products.
  • brandering — furring (def 4b).
  • brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
  • brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
  • bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
  • bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread
  • bread roll — a small piece of bread dough made into a circular shape and baked
  • bread shop — a baker's shop
  • breadberry — bread soaked in water or milk
  • breadboard — A breadboard is a flat piece of wood used for cutting bread on.
  • breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
  • breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
  • breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • breadstuff — any form of bread
  • break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • breakdance — to perform break dancing.
  • brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
  • brian reid — (person)   The person who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with John Gilmore.
  • bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
  • bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
  • bridezilla — a woman whose behaviour in planning the details of her wedding is regarded as intolerable
  • bridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • bridgehead — A bridgehead is a good position which an army has taken in the enemy's territory and from which it can advance or attack.
  • bridgetalk — (language)   A visual language.
  • bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
  • bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
  • brigandage — plundering by brigands
  • brigandine — a coat of mail, invented in the Middle Ages to increase mobility, consisting of metal rings or sheets sewn on to cloth or leather
  • broad bean — Broad beans are flat round beans that are light green in colour and are eaten as a vegetable.
  • broad seal — the official seal of a nation and its government
  • 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
  • broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
  • brood mare — a mare kept for breeding purposes
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