10-letter words containing b, a, d, t
- bardolatry — idolatry or excessive admiration of William Shakespeare
- barefooted — Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
- barneveldt — ˈJan van Olden (ˌjɑnˈvɑn ɔldən ) ; yänˌvän ôlˈdən) 1547-1619; Du. statesman & patriot
- bartenders — Plural form of bartender.
- bartending — to serve or work as a bartender.
- bastardise — to lower in condition or worth; debase: hybrid works that neither preserve nor bastardize existing art forms.
- bastardism — the condition of being illegitimate
- bastardize — to debase; corrupt
- basutoland — Lesotho
- bat around — to discuss (an idea, proposition, etc) informally
- batch mode — computer processing in which commands are input from a batch file, not interactively
- battledore — an ancient racket game
- bayonetted — (British) Simple past tense and past participle of bayonet.
- bead plant — a creeping plant, Nertera granadensis, of New Zealand and South America, having leathery leaves and orange-colored, transparent berries.
- beatitudes — supreme blessedness; exalted happiness.
- beautified — Simple past tense and past participle of beautify.
- bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
- beetlehead — a person of low intelligence
- bequeathed — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bernadette — a feminine name
- bernadotte — Folke (ˈfɔlke), Count. 1895–1948, Swedish diplomat, noted for his work with the Red Cross during World War II and as United Nations mediator in Palestine (1948). He was assassinated by Jewish terrorists
- bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
- beta decay — the radioactive transformation of an atomic nucleus accompanying the emission of an electron. It involves unit change of atomic number but none in mass number
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
- billethead — a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.
- bimodality — the state of being bimodal
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- 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.
- bird-watch — to identify wild birds and observe their actions and habits in their natural habitat as a recreation.
- birth-date — the date of a person’s birth, usually expressed as a specific day, month, and year.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- 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
- 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
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- blood bath — a killing of many people; massacre
- blood heat — Blood heat is a temperature of 37°C, which is about the same as the normal temperature of the human body.
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- board foot — a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick
- 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.
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- bonnethead — a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, found in shallow waters from Brazil to Massachusetts, having a spade-shaped head.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- 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