10-letter words containing b, a, d, t
- bottlehead — bottlenose (def 2).
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- bradstreet — Anne (Dudley). ?1612–72, US poet, born in England: regarded as the first significant US poet
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
- broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- 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.
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- butt heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
- butt-naked — completely naked
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- calibrated — marked with units
- carbolated — containing carbolic acid
- carbonated — Carbonated drinks are drinks that contain small bubbles of carbon dioxide.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- 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.
- celebrated — A celebrated person or thing is famous and much admired.
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- contraband — Contraband refers to goods that are taken into or out of a country illegally.
- creditable — A creditable performance or achievement is of a reasonably high standard.
- creditably — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
- crib death — Crib death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- d'alembert — Jean Le Rond (ʒɑ̃ lə rɔ̃). 1717–83, French mathematician, physicist, and rationalist philosopher, noted for his contribution to Newtonian physics in Traité de dynamique (1743) and for his collaboration with Diderot in editing the Encyclopédie
- dagobert i — a.d. 602?–639, Merovingian king of the Franks 628–639.
- dartboards — Plural form of dartboard.
- dating bar — singles bar.
- dealbation — the process of bleaching or making white
- death bell — a bell tolled to announce a death
- death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- debasement — Debasement is the action of reducing the value or quality of something.
- debateable — Archaic spelling of debatable.
- debatement — the act of deliberating or arguing about something
- debatingly — in an argumentative manner
- debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
- debit card — A debit card is a bank card that you can use to pay for things. When you use it the money is taken out of your bank account immediately.
- debt-laden — having large debts
- debutantes — Plural form of debutante.
- deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
- deductable — Alternative spelling of deductibletrue; that which can be deducted.