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10-letter words containing b, r, e, t

  • terra alba — any of various white, earthy or powdery substances, as pipe clay, gypsum, kaolin, or magnesia.
  • terrebonne — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
  • tetherball — a game for two persons, in which each player, standing on each side of a post from the top of which a ball is suspended by a cord, hits the ball with the hand or a paddle in a direction opposite to that in which the other player hits it, the object being to coil the cord completely around the post.
  • tetrabasic — (of an acid) having four atoms of hydrogen replaceable by basic atoms or groups.
  • tetrabrach — a metrical foot or word of four short syllables.
  • tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
  • tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
  • the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
  • the better — something that is the more excellent, useful, etc, of two such things
  • the boards — the acting profession; the stage
  • the bowery — a street in New York City noted for its cheap hotels and bars, frequented by vagrants and drunks
  • the breaks — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
  • the burren — a limestone area on the North Clare coast in the Irish Republic, famous for its wild flowers, caves, and dolmens
  • the rabbis — the early Jewish scholars whose teachings are recorded in the Talmud
  • the rabble — the common people
  • thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
  • thimblerig — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
  • third base — the third in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate.
  • threadbare — having the nap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of the warp and woof, as a fabric, garment, etc.
  • thrombogen — prothrombin.
  • thrombosed — affected with a thrombus or blood clot
  • thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
  • thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
  • thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
  • tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
  • tidal bore — an abrupt rise of tidal water moving rapidly inland from the mouth of an estuary.
  • tiebreaker — a system for breaking a tie score at the end of regulation play by establishing a winner through special additional play, usually of a fairly short duration, as in tennis and soccer.
  • tier table — a stand having a number of round shelves, one on top of the other.
  • tiger balm — a mentholated ointment widely used as a panacea
  • timberhead — the top end of a timber, rising above the deck and serving for belaying ropes.
  • timberjack — a person whose occupation is logging; logger.
  • timberlake — Justin. born 1981, US pop singer; a member of the boy band NSYNC, he later found success with the bestselling solo album Justified (2002)
  • timberland — land covered with timber-producing forests.
  • timberline — the altitude above sea level at which timber ceases to grow.
  • timberwork — structural work formed of timbers.
  • timberyard — an establishment where timber and sometimes other building materials are stored or sold
  • timbrelled — sung to a timbrel's sound
  • tithe barn — a large barn where, formerly, the agricultural tithe of a parish was stored
  • to be sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
  • tollbridge — a bridge where tolls are collected
  • top timber — a timber forming the upper, straighter portion of a frame in a wooden hull.
  • torbernite — a mineral, hydrated copper uranium phosphate, CuU 2 P 2 O 12 ⋅12H 2 O, occurring in square tabular crystals of a bright-green color: a minor ore of uranium; copper uranite.
  • tote board — a totalizator.
  • tower bolt — barrel bolt.
  • trabeculae — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
  • trabecular — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
  • trace back — identify origin, owner
  • trade bill — a bill of exchange drawn on and accepted (trade acceptance) by a trader in payment for goods
  • trade book — a book designed for the general public and available through an ordinary book dealer, as distinguished from a limited-edition book, textbook, mass market paperback, etc.
  • trail bike — off-road motorcycle
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