10-letter words containing b, e, m, a, d
- candlebeam — a medieval chandelier formed of crossed timbers.
- cardmember — a person authorized to use a particular credit card.
- comm badge — a small combined radio transmitter and receiver, carried around by one person, esp military personnel, in the form of a badge worn on the chest
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- 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
- damageable — injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness: The storm did considerable damage to the crops.
- damsel bug — any of various bugs of the carnivorous family Nabiidae, related to the bedbugs but feeding on other insects. The larvae of some species mimic and associate with ants
- debasement — Debasement is the action of reducing the value or quality of something.
- debatement — the act of deliberating or arguing about something
- deformable — to mar the natural form or shape of; put out of shape; disfigure: In cases where the drug was taken during pregnancy, its effects deformed the infants.
- demand bid — a bid to which one's partner is obliged to respond.
- demandable — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- demothball — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- disbarment — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- disembargo — to remove an embargo from.
- disembarks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembark.
- do a melba — to make repeated farewell appearances
- dream book — a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.
- dreamboats — Plural form of dreamboat.
- drum brake — a brake system in which a pair of brake shoes can be pressed against the inner surface of a shallow metal drum that is rigidly attached to a wheel.
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- drumbeater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- dumb-asses — a thoroughly stupid person; blockhead.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- embarassed — Misspelling of embarrassed.
- embassador — Archaic form of ambassador.
- embeddable — That can be embedded.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- emblazoned — Simple past tense and past participle of emblazon.
- embrangled — Simple past tense and past participle of embrangle.
- embrocated — Simple past tense and past participle of embrocate.
- endamoebic — relating to endamebae
- exam board — an organization that sets and corrects exams, especially GCSEs and A levels
- film badge — a badgelike device that, when processed, indicates whether a dose of radiation has been received: worn by workers subject to radiation exposure.
- fimbriated — Having a fringe or border of hairlike or fingerlike projections.
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- hebdomadal — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- hebdomadar — (in Scottish universities and grammar schools) a name given to the member of staff whose weekly turn it is to supervise the behaviour of students
- home brand — an item packaged and marketed under the brand name of a particular retailer, usually a large supermarket chain, rather than that of the manufacturer
- home-baked — baked at home; home-made
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- husbandmen — Plural form of husbandman.
- imageboard — A type of Internet forum that revolves around the posting of images with minimal associated text.
- imbalanced — If you describe a situation as imbalanced, you mean that the elements within it are not evenly or fairly arranged.
- imbricated — Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
- lumberyard — a yard where lumber is stored for sale.
- mandelbrot — designating or of any of various sets of points used in the study of chaos to generate fractals
- manducable — chewable or edible