10-letter words containing a, d, s, o
- audio disc — an act of recording.
- audiobooks — Plural form of audiobook.
- audiograms — Plural form of audiogram.
- audiotapes — Plural form of audiotape.
- australoid — denoting, relating to, or belonging to a supposed racial group that includes the native Australians and certain other peoples of southern Asia and the Pacific islands.
- authorised — Alternative spelling of authorized.
- autodigest — To carry out autodigestion.
- autostrada — an Italian motorway
- avoidances — Plural form of avoidance.
- backboards — Plural form of backboard.
- backswords — Plural form of backsword.
- backwoodsy — like or of the nature of backwoods
- banderoles — Plural form of banderole.
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bandoleers — Plural form of bandoleer.
- bandoleros — Plural form of bandolero.
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- bandoneons — Plural form of bandoneon.
- bandwagons — Plural form of bandwagon.
- bardacious — bodacious.
- barnardo's — a charity, founded by Thomas John Barnardo, that supports vulnerable children and young people
- basal body — a cylindrical organelle, within the cytoplasm of flagellated and ciliated cells, that contains microtubules and forms the base of a flagellum or cilium: identical in internal structure to a centriole.
- baseboards — Plural form of baseboard.
- basutoland — Lesotho
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- beadswoman — a female inhabitant of a beadhouse
- beard moss — any of several green or yellow lichens of the genus Usnea, having long, threadlike stems in a tangled mass typically hanging from tree branches, and growing in a wide range of habitats from tropical zones to the Arctic.
- bedeswoman — beadswoman
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- blastodisk — germinal disk
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
- 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
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
- boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- bomb squad — a squad or force of police officers or others trained to disarm bombs and other explosive devices.
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- bondswoman — a woman who is bound or who by bond becomes surety for another.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- brassboard — in certain types of engineering, an experimental model at a more advanced stage of development than a breadboard (sense 2)
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- bread shop — a baker's shop
- broad seal — the official seal of a nation and its government
- broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
- broadlands — a Palladian mansion near Romsey in Hampshire: formerly the home of Lord Palmerston and Lord Mountbatten
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area