10-letter words containing d, a, u
- bardacious — bodacious.
- barracudas — Plural form of barracuda.
- barramunda — the edible Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, having paddle-like fins and a long body covered with large scales
- barramundi — any of several large edible Australian fishes esp the percoid species Lates calcarifer (family Centropomidae) of NE coastal waters or the freshwater species Scleropages leichardti (family Osteoglossidae) of Queensland
- basutoland — Lesotho
- bat around — to discuss (an idea, proposition, etc) informally
- baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
- baudouin i — 1930–93, king of Belgium (1951–93)
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- be made up — to be very happy about something
- beatitudes — supreme blessedness; exalted happiness.
- beau ideal — perfect beauty or excellence
- beau monde — the world of fashion and society
- beau-ideal — a conception of perfect beauty.
- beauregard — P(ierre) G(ustave) T(outant) de1818-93; Confederate general
- beautified — Simple past tense and past participle of beautify.
- bequeathed — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- 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.