10-letter words containing b, e
- admittable — having the ability to be admitted
- admittible — Archaic spelling of admittable.
- adobe flat — a gently sloping clayey plain formed by a short-lived stream or flood water
- adsorbable — Able to be adsorbed.
- adsorbates — Plural form of adsorbate.
- adumbrated — (comparable) Obscured.
- adumbrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adumbrate.
- adverbials — Plural form of adverbial.
- adviseable — Alternative spelling of advisable.
- aerobacter — any bacteria of a former genus (Aerobacter) normally found in the intestine: now in either of two genera (Enterobacter or Klebsiella)
- aerobatics — Aerobatics are skilful displays of flying, usually to entertain people watching from the ground.
- aerobeacon — A light used to warn aircraft away from tall structures.
- aerobicize — (of a person) to perform aerobics
- aerobiosis — life in the presence of oxygen
- aerobiotic — Of or pertaining to aerobiosis.
- aerobridge — A telescoping corridor that extends from an airport terminal to an aircraft and allows secure boarding and disembarkation of passengers.
- aerophobia — a pathological fear of draughts of air
- affectable — having the ability to be influenced or affected by something
- affectible — Alternative form of affectable.
- affiliable — having the ability to be attributed to
- affirmable — having the ability to be verified or confirmed
- affordable — If something is affordable, most people have enough money to buy it.
- afterbirth — the placenta and fetal membranes expelled from the uterus after the birth of the offspring
- afterbrain — metencephalon (sense 1)
- aggregable — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
- agoraphobe — a person suffering from agoraphobia
- ahorseback — on horseback
- air battle — a fight between the aircraft of two opposing sides in a war
- air bridge — a link by air transport between two places, esp two places separated by a stretch of sea
- air bubble — a small pocket of air in a liquid, glass, metal etc
- airbrasive — a method of removing deposits from the teeth, or rarely, of preparing teeth for filling, by wearing down the surface with an abrasive substance blown by a jet of air
- airbrushed — Simple past tense and past participle of airbrush.
- airbrushes — Plural form of airbrush.
- alabandite — a mineral form of manganese sulphide (MnS) with cubic crystals
- alanbrooke — Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount. 1883–1963, British field marshal; chief of Imperial General Staff (1941–46)
- alban berg — Alban [ahl-bahn,, ahl-bahn] /ɑlˈbɑn,, ˈɑl bɑn/ (Show IPA), 1885–1935, Austrian composer.
- albert lea — a city in S Minnesota.
- albescence — becoming white; whitish.
- albigenses — members of a Manichean sect that flourished in S France from the 11th to the 13th century
- albumenize — to coat with a solution containing albumen or albumin
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- albuminate — any of several substances formed from albumin by the action of acid or alkali
- albuminize — to convert into albumin
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- alcibiades — 450–404 bc, Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War: brilliant, courageous, and unstable, he defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the Athenian victories at Abydos (411) and Cyzicus (410)
- algebraist — an expert in algebra.
- alice band — an ornamental band worn across the front of the hair to hold it back from the face
- alice blue — a pale grayish-blue color.
- all better — the whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration): all the cake; all the way; all year.
- all-elbows — (jargon) Said of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) mess-dos program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on BBS systems: unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident. One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt.