10-letter words containing d, a, i, b
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- biodegrade — to decompose (something)
- 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.
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- bird grass — rough bluegrass
- bird table — A bird table is a small wooden platform on a pole which some people put in their garden in order to put food for the birds on it.
- bird-brain — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
- bird-watch — to identify wild birds and observe their actions and habits in their natural habitat as a recreation.
- birkenhead — a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop: 83 729 (2001)
- birth-date — the date of a person’s birth, usually expressed as a specific day, month, and year.
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- 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
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- blastodisk — germinal disk
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
- boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
- body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
- bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
- boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- bombardier — the member of a bomber aircrew responsible for aiming and releasing the bombs
- bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
- 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
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- boxing day — Boxing Day is the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day.
- brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
- bradykinin — a peptide in blood plasma that dilates blood vessels and causes contraction of smooth muscles. Formula: C50H73N15O11
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).
- brain-dead — If someone is declared brain-dead, they have suffered brain death.
- 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
- brand nazi — a person who insists on buying one particular brand of clothing or other commodity
- brandering — furring (def 4b).
- brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
- brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
- brazilwood — a hard, reddish wood obtained from several tropical American trees (genera Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon) of the caesalpinia family: it yields a red or blue dye and is also used in making cabinets and violin bows