10-letter words containing c, a, b, d
- backwoodsy — like or of the nature of backwoods
- bacon rind — the outer edge of a slice of bacon, corresponding to the skin of the pig
- bad cheque — A bad cheque is a bank cheque that will not be paid because there is a mistake on it, or because there is not enough money in the account of the person who wrote the cheque.
- bald-faced — barefaced (def 2).
- baldacchin — A rich, embroidered brocade used for clothing in the Middle Ages, the web being gold and the woof silk.
- baldachins — Plural form of baldachin.
- banda aceh — a city in N Indonesia, in N Sumatra; the capital of Aceh region; suffered badly in the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004. Pop: 154 767 (2000)
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bar-le-duc — Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- bardacious — bodacious.
- bare-faced — You use bare-faced to describe someone's behaviour when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
- barenecked — Having the neck bare.
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- barn dance — A barn dance is a social event people go to for country dancing.
- barracudas — Plural form of barracuda.
- barricaded — a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
- barricades — Plural form of barricade.
- batch mode — computer processing in which commands are input from a batch file, not interactively
- beachheads — Plural form of beachhead.
- bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
- bedchamber — A bedchamber is a bedroom.
- bench-made — (of articles made of leather, wood, etc.) individually produced and finished, as on a carpenter's bench; custom-made.
- beta decay — the radioactive transformation of an atomic nucleus accompanying the emission of an electron. It involves unit change of atomic number but none in mass number
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- bird-watch — to identify wild birds and observe their actions and habits in their natural habitat as a recreation.
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black body — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- black code — any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black disc — a conventional black vinyl gramophone record as opposed to a compact disc
- black duck — a sooty brown, wild duck (Anas rubripes) of E North America
- black gold — petroleum
- black hand — a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century
- black land — a black, clayey soil.
- black lead — to colour or rub with black lead
- black mold — any fungus of the family Mucoraceae, especially Rhizopus nigricans, that forms a black, furry coating on foodstuffs.
- blackbeard — nickname of (Edward) Teach
- blackboard — A blackboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Blackboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
- blacklands — an area of fertile soil in Texas
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- blockboard — a type of plywood in which soft wood strips are bonded together and sandwiched between two layers of veneer
- body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
- bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- boric acid — a white soluble weakly acid crystalline solid used in the manufacture of heat-resistant glass and porcelain enamels, as a fireproofing material, and as a mild antiseptic. Formula: H3BO3