10-letter words containing d, e, c, l
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backvelder — a person who lives in a backveld
- bald-faced — barefaced (def 2).
- 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.
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
- bedclothes — Bedclothes are the sheets and covers which you put over yourself when you get into bed.
- belowdecks — below a ship's deck
- bespeckled — to speckle.
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- 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
- blood cell — any of the cells that circulate in the blood
- blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brickfield — an area of ground where bricks are made
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- cable bend — a knot or clinch for attaching a cable to an anchor or mooring post.
- cable-laid — (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.
- caddicefly — caddisfly.
- cadwalader — 7th century ad, legendary king of the Britons, probably a confusion of several historical figures
- calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
- calcedonio — a type of Venetian opaque glassware, with veins of colour, intended to imitate chalcedony
- calcimined — Simple past tense and past participle of calcimine.
- calculated — If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
- calderdale — a unitary authority in N England, in West Yorkshire. Pop: 193 200 (2003 est). Area: 364 sq km (140 sq miles)
- caledonian — of or relating to Scotland
- calendared — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- calendarer — a person who calendars
- calendered — Simple past tense and past participle of calender.
- calenderer — a person who operates a calender
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- calibrated — marked with units
- camelopard — giraffe
- candelabra — A candelabra is an ornamental holder for two or more candles.
- candelilla — either of two wax-coated Mexican shrubs, Euphorbia antisyphilitica or Pedilanthus pavonis (or bracteatus)
- candlebeam — a medieval chandelier formed of crossed timbers.
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
- candlewood — the resinous wood of any of several trees, used for torches and candle substitutes