10-letter words containing a, l, d, e
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
- 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.
- cable bend — a knot or clinch for attaching a cable to an anchor or mooring post.
- cable-laid — (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.
- caddicefly — caddisfly.
- cadwalader — 7th century ad, legendary king of the Britons, probably a confusion of several historical figures
- calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
- calcedonio — a type of Venetian opaque glassware, with veins of colour, intended to imitate chalcedony
- calcimined — Simple past tense and past participle of calcimine.
- calculated — If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
- calderdale — a unitary authority in N England, in West Yorkshire. Pop: 193 200 (2003 est). Area: 364 sq km (140 sq miles)
- caledonian — of or relating to Scotland
- calendared — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- calendarer — a person who calendars
- calendered — Simple past tense and past participle of calender.
- calenderer — a person who operates a calender
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- calibrated — marked with units
- camelopard — giraffe
- candelabra — A candelabra is an ornamental holder for two or more candles.
- candelilla — either of two wax-coated Mexican shrubs, Euphorbia antisyphilitica or Pedilanthus pavonis (or bracteatus)
- candlebeam — a medieval chandelier formed of crossed timbers.
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
- 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
- candlewood — the resinous wood of any of several trees, used for torches and candle substitutes
- canefields — Plural form of canefield.
- cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
- 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.
- car dealer — a person or business which sells cars
- carbolated — containing carbolic acid
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- carbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbolize.
- carbondale — a city in SW Illinois.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- 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.
- cardcastle — a tower built with playing cards
- cardholder — A cardholder is someone who has a bank card or credit card.