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10-letter words containing d, e, n, r

  • boy wonder — a young man who is extremely good at a particular activity or who has a particular talent or skill
  • brain-dead — If someone is declared brain-dead, they have suffered brain death.
  • brake band — a strip of fabric, leather, or metal tightened around a pulley or shaft to act as a brake
  • brand name — The brand name of a product is the name the manufacturer gives it and under which it is sold.
  • brand-name — having or being a brand name: nationally known brand-name food products.
  • brandering — furring (def 4b).
  • brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
  • brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
  • bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
  • breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
  • break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • breakdance — to perform break dancing.
  • brian reid — (person)   The person who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with John Gilmore.
  • bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
  • 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
  • broad bean — Broad beans are flat round beans that are light green in colour and are eaten as a vegetable.
  • broodiness — moody; gloomy.
  • brown deer — a town in SE Wisconsin.
  • 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.
  • bug-ridden — full of insects
  • buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
  • bundeswehr — the armed forces of Germany.
  • bunt order — a dominance hierarchy seen in herds of cattle, established and maintained by bunting.
  • burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
  • burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
  • burned-out — consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use: a burned-out tube.
  • cadaverine — a toxic diamine with an unpleasant smell, produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Formula: NH2(CH2)5NH2
  • 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
  • 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
  • candelabra — A candelabra is an ornamental holder for two or more candles.
  • cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
  • cannelured — a groove or fluting around the cylindrical part of a bullet.
  • caravanned — a group of travelers, as merchants or pilgrims, journeying together for safety in passing through deserts, hostile territory, etc.
  • carbonated — Carbonated drinks are drinks that contain small bubbles of carbon dioxide.
  • carbondale — a city in SW Illinois.
  • carbonised — Alternative spelling of carbonized.
  • carbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbonize.
  • carbonnade — a thick stew of beef, onions, herbs, etc., cooked in beer.
  • carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
  • card index — A card index is a number of cards with information written on them which are arranged in a particular order, usually alphabetical, so that you can find the information you want easily.
  • cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
  • cardueline — of or relating to the passerine subfamily Carduelinae, including the goldfinches, siskins, canaries and crossbills.
  • carnalized — Simple past tense and past participle of carnalize.
  • carotenoid — any of a group of red or yellow pigments, including carotenes, found in plants and certain animal tissues
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