10-letter words containing b, r, e, d
- burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burned-out — consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use: a burned-out tube.
- butterweed — a North American herbaceous plant, Senecio glabellus, with yellow flowers
- buttressed — any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall.
- by degrees — If something happens by degrees, it happens slowly and gradually.
- cabo verde — a republic in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa, consisting of a group of ten islands and five islets: an overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, when the islands became independent. Official language: Portuguese. Religion: Christian (Roman Catholic) majority; animist minority. Currency: Cape Verdean escudo. Capital: Praia. Pop: 531 046 (2013 est). Area: 4033 sq km (1557 sq miles)
- calibrated — marked with units
- candelabra — A candelabra is an ornamental holder for two or more candles.
- carbolated — containing carbolic acid
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- carbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbolize.
- carbonated — Carbonated drinks are drinks that contain small bubbles of carbon dioxide.
- carbondale — a city in SW Illinois.
- carbonised — Alternative spelling of carbonized.
- carbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbonize.
- carbonnade — a thick stew of beef, onions, herbs, etc., cooked in beer.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- carburized — Simple past tense and past participle of carburize.
- 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.
- cardmember — a person authorized to use a particular credit card.
- cedar robe — Dialect. a cedar chest or cedar-lined wardrobe.
- 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.
- chessboard — A chessboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing chess.
- chesterbed — a sofa or chesterfield that opens into a bed.
- cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- colorbreed — to breed plants or animals selectively for the production of new varieties having a specific color or shade.
- colourbred — (of an animal) bred to be a particular colour
- conscribed — Simple past tense and past participle of conscribe.
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- corn bread — a baked or fried flat bread made with cornmeal and, variously, milk or water, flour, eggs, sugar, etc.
- corrodible — Readily corroded.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- 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.
- crispbread — Crispbreads are thin dry biscuits made from wheat or rye. They are often eaten instead of bread by people who want to lose weight.
- crossbreed — to breed (animals or plants) using parents of different races, varieties, breeds, etc
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- 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.
- cyberdelic — Of or pertaining to a fusion of modern cyberculture with the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s.
- 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.
- de broglie — Prince Louis Victor (lwi viktɔr). 1892–1987, French physicist, noted for his research in quantum mechanics and his development of wave mechanics: Nobel prize for physics 1929