10-letter words containing d, a, c
- 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
- brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- breakdance — to perform break dancing.
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
- broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
- broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
- cable bend — a knot or clinch for attaching a cable to an anchor or mooring post.
- cable-laid — (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction
- 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)
- cackhanded — left-handed
- cacodaemon — Wicked or malevolent spirit as opposed to agathodemon (a good spirit).
- cacodemons — Plural form of cacodemon.
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.
- cad system — A CAD system is a computer system for designing parts or products before they are manufactured.
- cadaverine — a toxic diamine with an unpleasant smell, produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Formula: NH2(CH2)5NH2
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- caddicefly — caddisfly.
- caddie car — a small light two-wheeled trolley for carrying clubs
- caddis fly — any of an order (Trichoptera) of small, mothlike insects with a soft body, long antennae and legs, and two pairs of hairy, membranous wings
- caddisworm — the aquatic larva of a caddis fly, which constructs a protective case around itself made of silk, sand, stones, etc
- cadwalader — 7th century ad, legendary king of the Britons, probably a confusion of several historical figures
- cake stand — a plate on a pedestal used for displaying cakes in a shop or café, or for special cakes such as wedding cakes
- calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
- calamondin — a small citrus tree, Citrus mitis, of the Philippines
- calcedonio — a type of Venetian opaque glassware, with veins of colour, intended to imitate chalcedony
- calcimined — Simple past tense and past participle of calcimine.
- calculated — If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
- calderdale — a unitary authority in N England, in West Yorkshire. Pop: 193 200 (2003 est). Area: 364 sq km (140 sq miles)