10-letter words containing b, m, d
- climb down — If you climb down in an argument or dispute, you admit that you are wrong, or change your intentions or demands.
- climb-down — a retreat, as from an indefensible opinion or position.
- combinedly — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
- 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
- cummerbund — A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress.
- 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.
- damp squib — You can describe something such as an event or a performance as a damp squib when it is expected to be interesting, exciting, or impressive, but fails to be any of these things.
- 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
- debt limit — (in public finance) the legal maximum debt permitted a municipal, state, or national government.
- decembrist — a participant in the unsuccessful revolt against Tsar Nicolas I in Dec 1825
- decumbence — The act or posture of lying down.
- decumbency — Decumbence.
- 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.
- demob suit — a suit of civilian clothes issued to a demobilized soldier, esp at the end of World War II
- demobilise — to disband (troops, an army, etc.).
- demobilize — If a country or armed force demobilizes its troops, or if its troops demobilize, its troops are released from service and allowed to go home.
- demothball — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- dibromides — Plural form of dibromide.
- dirty bomb — a nuclear warhead designed to produce a great amount of radioactive debris by use of a fusion core, fission trigger, and casing of uranium-238.
- 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.
- disembogue — to discharge contents by pouring forth.
- disembosom — to reveal; divulge.
- disembowel — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disembroil — to free from embroilment, entanglement, or confusion.
- disselboom — One of the poles supporting a wagon.
- dissembled — Simple past tense and past participle of dissemble.
- dissembler — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
- dithyrambs — Plural form of dithyramb.
- do a melba — to make repeated farewell appearances
- dobby loom — a loom equipped with a dobby for weaving small, geometric patterns.
- 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 bunny — a stupid person.
- dumb cluck — a stupid person.
- dumb-asses — a thoroughly stupid person; blockhead.
- dumbfounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dumbfound.
- dumbledore — (dialectal) A bumblebee.