10-letter words containing d, a, l, b, e
- 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.
- bardolater — someone who practises bardolatry
- barelegged — having uncovered legs
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- barneveldt — ˈJan van Olden (ˌjɑnˈvɑn ɔldən ) ; yänˌvän ôlˈdən) 1547-1619; Du. statesman & patriot
- barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
- barrelhead — the round and flat end of a barrel
- basel-land — a demicanton in N Switzerland. 165 sq. mi. (425 sq. km). Capital: Liestal.
- battledore — an ancient racket game
- baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
- bead plane — a plane for cutting beads.
- bead plant — a creeping plant, Nertera granadensis, of New Zealand and South America, having leathery leaves and orange-colored, transparent berries.
- beau ideal — perfect beauty or excellence
- beau-ideal — a conception of perfect beauty.
- bedazzling — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- bedraggled — Someone or something that is bedraggled looks untidy because they have got wet or dirty.
- beetlehead — a person of low intelligence
- belladonna — either of two alkaloid drugs, atropine or hyoscyamine, obtained from the leaves and roots of the deadly nightshade
- belly-land — (of an aviator) to land (an aircraft) directly on the fuselage, as because of defective landing gear.
- bellyboard — a small surfboard, usually 3–4 feet (0.9–1.2 meters) long, for riding waves on one's belly, sometimes used in conjunction with swim fins.
- bemedalled — wearing or adorned with many medals: a bemedaled general; wearing a bemedaled military blouse.
- bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
- bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
- billethead — a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- bladdernut — any temperate shrub or small tree of the genus Staphylea, esp S. pinnata of S Europe, that has bladder-like seed pods: family Staphyleaceae
- bladderpod — any of several plants belonging to the genera Alyssoides and Lesquerella, of the mustard family, having inflated seed pods.
- blade slap — the regular noise beat generated by the rotor blades of a helicopter
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- blood heat — Blood heat is a temperature of 37°C, which is about the same as the normal temperature of the human body.
- blood meal — the dried blood of animals used as a fertilizer, diet supplement for livestock, or deer repellent.
- 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.
- blues band — a band that plays the blues
- board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
- bobblehead — a collectable doll with a bobbing oversized head representing a celebrity or a cartoon character
- bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
- bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.