10-letter words containing d, e, b, r, i
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- bridgework — a partial denture attached to the surrounding teeth
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- bridlewise — (of a horse) obedient to the pressure of the reins on the neck rather than to the bit
- brigandage — plundering by brigands
- brigandine — a coat of mail, invented in the Middle Ages to increase mobility, consisting of metal rings or sheets sewn on to cloth or leather
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- broodiness — moody; gloomy.
- brookfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- broomfield — a city in N central Colorado.
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
- budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
- bug-ridden — full of insects
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- bumpy ride — experience: difficult
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- calibrated — marked with units
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- carbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbolize.
- carbonised — Alternative spelling of carbonized.
- carbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbonize.
- carburized — Simple past tense and past participle of carburize.
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- conscribed — Simple past tense and past participle of conscribe.
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- corrodible — Readily corroded.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- creditable — A creditable performance or achievement is of a reasonably high standard.
- creditably — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
- crib death — Crib death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- crispbread — Crispbreads are thin dry biscuits made from wheat or rye. They are often eaten instead of bread by people who want to lose weight.
- cyberdelic — Of or pertaining to a fusion of modern cyberculture with the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s.
- dagobert i — a.d. 602?–639, Merovingian king of the Franks 628–639.
- de broglie — Prince Louis Victor (lwi viktɔr). 1892–1987, French physicist, noted for his research in quantum mechanics and his development of wave mechanics: Nobel prize for physics 1929
- debit card — A debit card is a bank card that you can use to pay for things. When you use it the money is taken out of your bank account immediately.
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- debonnaire — courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm: a debonair gentleman.
- debriefing — A debriefing is a meeting where someone such as a soldier, diplomat, or astronaut is asked to give a report on an operation or task that they have just completed.
- debris bug — a bug of the family Cimicidae found where vegetable debris accumulates and feeding on small arthropods like springtails: related to the bedbugs
- decembrist — a participant in the unsuccessful revolt against Tsar Nicolas I in Dec 1825
- defiberize — defibrate.
- deliberate — If you do something that is deliberate, you planned or decided to do it beforehand, and so it happens on purpose rather than by chance.
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- deprivable — Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
- derbyshire — a county of N central England: contains the Peak District and several resorts with mineral springs: the geographical and ceremonial county includes the city of Derby, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Matlock. Pop (excluding Derby city): 743 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Derby city): 2551 sq km (985 sq miles)
- descriable — Capable of being descried (detected or perceived).
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- describers — Plural form of describer.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.