10-letter words containing c, b, a, t
- archiblast — egg protoplasm
- arcubalist — an arbalest
- ascerbated — Simple past tense and past participle of ascerbate.
- ascorbates — Plural form of ascorbate.
- aspectable — having the ability to be seen
- athabascan — a family of languages spoken by American Indians in most of inland northwest Canada and Alaska, in coastal Oregon and California, and in Arizona and the Rio Grande basin, and including especially Navajo, Apache, and Chipewyan. Compare family (def 14).
- attachable — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- attackable — Which may be attacked.
- attic base — (in classical architecture) a base for a column, consisting of an upper and a lower torus separated by a scotia between two fillets.
- autophobic — Of or pertaining to autophobia.
- b particle — B meson.
- bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.
- bacitracin — an antibiotic used mainly in treating bacterial skin infections: obtained from the bacterium Bacillus subtilis
- back float — a floating position on one's back with arms extended out to the sides and face upward.
- back forty — remote, usually uncultivated acreage on a large piece of land, as on a farm or ranch.
- back light — light falling on a photographic or television subject from the rear
- back quote — (character) "`" ASCII code 96. Common names: left quote; left single quote; open quote; ITU-T: grave accent; grave. Rare: backprime; INTERCAL: backspark; unapostrophe; birk; blugle; back tick; back glitch; push; ITU-T: opening single quotation mark; quasiquote. Back quote is used in Unix shells to invoke command substitution.
- back shaft — a spindle carrying back gears.
- back shift — a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
- back staff — an obsolete instrument for determining the altitude of the sun by facing away from the sun, sighting upon the horizon, adjusting a cursor until its shadow falls upon the sight through which the horizon appears, and measuring the resulting arc.
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- back tooth — a tooth in the back of your jaw
- back water — to reverse the direction of a boat, esp to push the oars of a rowing boat to slow it down or stop it
- back-cloth — backdrop (def 1).
- back-dated — If a purchase order or invoice is back-dated, it is given a date that is some time before the date it was actually prepared.
- back-track — to return over the same course or route.
- back-trail — to backtrack.
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
- backcloths — Plural form of backcloth.
- backcourts — Plural form of backcourt.
- backdating — Present participle of backdate.
- backend-to — in a reversed position; backward.
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
- backsights — Plural form of backsight.
- backstairs — a secondary staircase in a house, esp one originally for the use of servants
- backstitch — a strong sewing stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle or beginning of the preceding one
- backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
- backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
- backtalker — One who backtalks.
- backtracks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backtrack.
- backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
- bacteremia — the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream
- bacteremic — Of, pertaining to or having bacteremia.
- bacteriol. — bacteriological
- balconette — a lightly padded bra that is designed to lift and enhance the appearance of a woman's bust
- ballistics — Ballistics is the study of the movement of objects that are shot or thrown through the air, such as bullets fired from a gun.