10-letter words containing a, d, r, t
- boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
- body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- bradstreet — Anne (Dudley). ?1612–72, US poet, born in England: regarded as the first significant US poet
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- 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.
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
- 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.
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- calibrated — marked with units
- carbolated — containing carbolic acid
- carbonated — Carbonated drinks are drinks that contain small bubbles of carbon dioxide.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- card table — A card table is a small light table which can be folded up and which is sometimes used for playing games of cards on.
- card trick — an illusory feat performed with playing cards
- cardcastle — a tower built with playing cards
- cardiotomy — (surgery) The procedure of making an incision in the heart.
- carotenoid — any of a group of red or yellow pigments, including carotenes, found in plants and certain animal tissues
- carpetweed — an annual weed, Mollugo verticillata, native to North America, which produces small white flowers
- cartelized — Simple past tense and past participle of cartelize.
- cartridges — Plural form of cartridge.
- castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
- cat around — to search promiscuously for sexual partners; be promiscuous
- cataracted — a descent of water over a steep surface; a waterfall, especially one of considerable size.
- catch-cord — a cord or wire located near a selvage, used to form a loop or deflect the filling yarn not intended to be woven permanently in with the regular selvage.
- catchwords — Plural form of catchword.
- category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
- cathedrals — Plural form of cathedral.
- cauterised — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterise.
- cauterized — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterize.
- cedar city — a town in SW Utah.
- celebrated — A celebrated person or thing is famous and much admired.
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- centigrade — Centigrade is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. It is represented by the symbol °C.
- centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- chadderton — a town in NW England, in Oldham unitary authority, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 33 001 (2001)
- chardonnet — (Louis Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (ilɛr bɛrniɡo), Comte de. 1839–1924, French chemist and industrialist who produced rayon, the first artificial fibre
- child star — a child who attains celebrity status
- chloridate — to expose to or prepare with a chloride
- chromatids — Plural form of chromatid.
- chromatoid — Resembling chromatin.
- cicatrized — Simple past tense and past participle of cicatrize.