10-letter words containing a, d, u, l
- autoclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of autoclave.
- autodialer — An electronic device that dials telephone numbers randomly or from a list and may also leave messages and request information.
- autoloader — stack loader
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- 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.
- basutoland — Lesotho
- baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
- beau ideal — perfect beauty or excellence
- beau-ideal — a conception of perfect beauty.
- black duck — a sooty brown, wild duck (Anas rubripes) of E North America
- blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
- bladdernut — any temperate shrub or small tree of the genus Staphylea, esp S. pinnata of S Europe, that has bladder-like seed pods: family Staphyleaceae
- 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
- board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
- bubblehead — a frivolous person
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- bufflehead — a small North American diving duck, Bucephala (or Glaucionetta) albeola: the male has black-and-white plumage and a fluffy head
- bullethead — a head considered similar in shape to a bullet, as that of a person with a high, domelike forehead and cranium and short hair.
- bullheaded — blindly stubborn; headstrong
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- calculated — If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- calmodulin — a protein found in most living cells; it regulates many enzymic processes that are dependent on calcium
- candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
- candy pull — a social gathering at which taffy or molasses candy is made.
- cannelured — a groove or fluting around the cylindrical part of a bullet.
- cannulated — Simple past tense and past participle of cannulate.
- capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.
- capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
- capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- cardueline — of or relating to the passerine subfamily Carduelinae, including the goldfinches, siskins, canaries and crossbills.
- catalogued — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- catapulted — an ancient military engine for hurling stones, arrows, etc.
- caudal fin — the tail fin of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates, used for propulsion during locomotion
- caudle cup — a deep drinking cup having two handles and, usually, a cover.
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- cellulated — of, relating to, resembling, or composed of very small cells
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- circulated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- claudicant — (medicine) limping.
- claudius i — 10 b.c.–a.d. 54, Roman emperor a.d. 41–54.
- cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
- cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
- cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
- cloudscape — a picturesque formation of clouds
- coagulated — Subject to coagulation.