10-letter words containing d, a, u, b
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black duck — a sooty brown, wild duck (Anas rubripes) of E North America
- blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
- 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
- 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
- boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
- bomb squad — a squad or force of police officers or others trained to disarm bombs and other explosive devices.
- bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- 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).
- brake drum — the cast-iron drum attached to the hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle fitted with drum brakes
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
- breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- broad jump — an exercise and athletic contest in which competitors try to jump the farthest distance possible from a standing start from a fixed board or mark
- broad-jump — long-jump.
- broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
- bubblehead — a frivolous person
- bubs grade — a baby
- 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.
- buddh gaya — a town in NE India, in Bihar: site of the sacred bo tree under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha; pilgrimage centre. Pop: 30 883 (2001)
- buddhahood — the attainment of enlightenment as a Buddha.
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- bufflehead — a small North American diving duck, Bucephala (or Glaucionetta) albeola: the male has black-and-white plumage and a fluffy head
- bullethead — a head considered similar in shape to a bullet, as that of a person with a high, domelike forehead and cranium and short hair.
- bullheaded — blindly stubborn; headstrong
- bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
- burma road — the route extending from Lashio in Burma (now Myanmar) to Chongqing in China, which was used by the Allies during World War II to supply military equipment to Chiang Kai-shek's forces in China
- butt heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
- butt-naked — completely naked
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- carburized — Simple past tense and past participle of carburize.
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria