10-letter words containing a, i, l, e, d
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- 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.
- bedazzling — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- billethead — a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- bird table — A bird table is a small wooden platform on a pole which some people put in their garden in order to put food for the birds on it.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- 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.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
- bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
- 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.
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- cable-laid — (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction
- caddicefly — caddisfly.
- calcedonio — a type of Venetian opaque glassware, with veins of colour, intended to imitate chalcedony
- calcimined — Simple past tense and past participle of calcimine.
- caledonian — of or relating to Scotland
- calibrated — marked with units
- candelilla — either of two wax-coated Mexican shrubs, Euphorbia antisyphilitica or Pedilanthus pavonis (or bracteatus)
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
- canefields — Plural form of canefield.
- capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
- capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- carbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbolize.
- cardueline — of or relating to the passerine subfamily Carduelinae, including the goldfinches, siskins, canaries and crossbills.
- carnalized — Simple past tense and past participle of carnalize.
- cartelized — Simple past tense and past participle of cartelize.
- cefadroxil — A broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic.
- celadonite — a hydrous silicate of iron and potassium; an iron-rich soft mica.
- celandines — Plural form of celandine.
- centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
- chalcidice — a peninsula of N central Greece, in Macedonia Central, ending in the three promontories of Kassandra, Sithonia, and Akti. Area: 2945 sq km (1149 sq miles)
- chandelier — A chandelier is a large, decorative frame which holds light bulbs or candles and hangs from the ceiling.
- child seat — a type of child restraint consisting of a seat with safety features
- child-care — having to do with the care of children, specif., of preschool children whose parents are employed
- childermas — Holy Innocents Day, Dec 28
- chlamydiae — the sexually transmitted diseases that are due to the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis