10-letter words containing d, i, a, l
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- bird table — A bird table is a small wooden platform on a pole which some people put in their garden in order to put food for the birds on it.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black disc — a conventional black vinyl gramophone record as opposed to a compact disc
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- blastodisk — germinal disk
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- 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.
- boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
- brazilwood — a hard, reddish wood obtained from several tropical American trees (genera Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon) of the caesalpinia family: it yields a red or blue dye and is also used in making cabinets and violin bows
- bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
- bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
- bridezilla — a woman whose behaviour in planning the details of her wedding is regarded as intolerable
- bridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- brillo pad — a scouring pad made of wire wool filled with soap
- cable-laid — (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction
- caddicefly — caddisfly.
- caddis fly — any of an order (Trichoptera) of small, mothlike insects with a soft body, long antennae and legs, and two pairs of hairy, membranous wings
- calamondin — a small citrus tree, Citrus mitis, of the Philippines
- calcedonio — a type of Venetian opaque glassware, with veins of colour, intended to imitate chalcedony
- calcimined — Simple past tense and past participle of calcimine.
- caledonian — of or relating to Scotland
- calibrated — marked with units
- calmodulin — a protein found in most living cells; it regulates many enzymic processes that are dependent on calcium
- candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
- candelilla — either of two wax-coated Mexican shrubs, Euphorbia antisyphilitica or Pedilanthus pavonis (or bracteatus)
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- 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
- canefields — Plural form of canefield.
- canoodling — Present participle of canoodle.
- capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
- capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- carbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbolize.
- cardialgia — pain in or near the heart
- cardinally — of prime importance; chief; principal: of cardinal significance.
- cardiology — Cardiology is the study of the heart and its diseases.
- cardueline — of or relating to the passerine subfamily Carduelinae, including the goldfinches, siskins, canaries and crossbills.