10-letter words containing b, e, t, w
- craft brew — an all-malt or nearly all-malt specialty beer usually brewed in a small, regional brewery.
- 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.
- draw table — a table having one or more sliding leaves that may be drawn out as an extension.
- 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.
- elbow-rest — something designed for resting one's elbow on
- go-between — a person who acts as an agent or intermediary between persons or groups; emissary.
- in between — Usually, betweens. a short needle with a rounded eye and a sharp point, used for fine hand stitchery in heavy fabric.
- in-between — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- lewis bolt — an anchor bolt having a conical base around which concrete or lead is poured to hold it.
- low-budget — made or done on a small or reduced budget; costing relatively little money: a low-budget film.
- number two — someone or something that is second in rank, order, or importance.
- rewritable — A rewritable CD or DVD is a CD or DVD that you can record onto more than once. Compare recordable.
- sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
- showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- strawberry — the fruit of any stemless plant belonging to the genus Fragaria, of the rose family, consisting of an enlarged fleshy receptacle bearing achenes on its exterior.
- sweetbread — Also called stomach sweetbread. the pancreas of an animal, especially a calf or a lamb, used for food.
- sweetbrier — a rose, Rosa eglanteria, of Europe and central Asia, having a tall stem, stout, hooked prickles often mixed with bristles, and single, pink flowers.
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- sword belt — a military belt from which a sword may be hung.
- table wine — a wine that contains not more than 14 percent alcohol and is usually served as an accompaniment to food.
- take a bow — to bend the knee or body or incline the head, as in reverence, submission, salutation, recognition, or acknowledgment.
- tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
- the bowery — a street in New York City noted for its cheap hotels and bars, frequented by vagrants and drunks
- thimblewit — a silly or dimwitted person; dunce
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- thumbwheel — a small, partially exposed wheel that can be turned with a thumb or finger and is found on various devices such as computers or instruments
- timberwork — structural work formed of timbers.
- tower bolt — barrel bolt.
- trowbridge — a market town in SW England, administrative centre of Wiltshire: woollen manufacturing. Pop: 34 401 (2001)
- tumbledown — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- tumbleweed — any of various plants, as Amaranthus albus, A. graecizans, or the Russian thistle, Salsola kali, whose branching upper parts become detached from the roots and are driven about by the wind.
- twice-born — Hinduism. of or relating to members of the Indian castes of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas, who undergo a spiritual rebirth and initiation in adolescence.
- twig borer — any of several beetles, beetle larvae, or moth larvae that bore into the twigs of plants.
- two-bagger — two-base hit.
- unbestowed — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- wait table — to serve food as a waiter or servant to people at a table
- war bonnet — an American Indian headdress consisting of a headband with a tail of ornamental feathers.
- washbasket — Alternative form of wash basket.
- water back — a reservoir or arrangement of tubing at the back of certain stoves or fireplaces for containing water to be heated by the fire.
- water bath — a system for the control of temperature in which a vessel containing the material to be heated is set into or over one containing water and receiving the heat directly.
- water bear — a tardigrade.
- water bird — an aquatic bird; a swimming or wading bird.
- water boat — a vessel for supplying ships with fresh water.
- water bomb — a bag filled with water and mischievously dropped from a height upon a passerby below.
- water butt — A water butt is a large barrel for collecting rain as it flows off a roof.
- water-bath — a system for the control of temperature in which a vessel containing the material to be heated is set into or over one containing water and receiving the heat directly.
- waterboard — Subject (someone) to the process of waterboarding.
- waterborne — floating or moving on water; supported by water: The ship was waterborne ten months after the keel was laid.
- waterbrain — gid, in sheep.