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10-letter words containing c, e, d

  • backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
  • backspaced — Simple past tense and past participle of backspace.
  • backvelder — a person who lives in a backveld
  • backwinded — Simple past tense and past participle of backwind.
  • 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).
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • be excused — to go to the lavatory
  • beachheads — Plural form of beachhead.
  • beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
  • become due — to become payable as previously arranged
  • bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
  • bedchamber — A bedchamber is a bedroom.
  • bedclothes — Bedclothes are the sheets and covers which you put over yourself when you get into bed.
  • bee orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys apifera, whose flower resembles a bumble bee in shape and colour
  • beechdrops — a North American flowering plant, Epifagus virginiana, which is parasitic on beech trees
  • belowdecks — below a ship's deck
  • bench-made — (of articles made of leather, wood, etc.) individually produced and finished, as on a carpenter's bench; custom-made.
  • benedicite — (esp in Christian religious orders) a blessing or grace
  • benedict i — died a.d. 579, pope 575–79.
  • benedict v — died a.d. 966, pope 964.
  • benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
  • bescreened — screen (def 17).
  • besmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
  • bespeckled — to speckle.
  • 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
  • bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
  • bifurcated — divided into two branches.
  • bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
  • biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
  • bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
  • 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 lead — to colour or rub with black lead
  • blackbeard — nickname of (Edward) Teach
  • blood cell — any of the cells that circulate in the blood
  • blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
  • body check — the fair block of an opponent who has the puck by bumping with the body, shoulder to hip, from the front or side
  • bold-faced — confident or impudent
  • boondocker — combat boot.
  • boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
  • bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
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