10-letter words containing e, d, i, r
- auditioner — a person who attends an audition
- authorised — Alternative spelling of authorized.
- authorized — officially permitted or empowered
- autodialer — An electronic device that dials telephone numbers randomly or from a list and may also leave messages and request information.
- autowinder — a battery-operated device for advancing the film in a camera automatically after each exposure
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- bainbridge — Beryl.1934–2010, British novelist and playwright. Novels include The Dressmaker (1973), Injury Time (1977), Master Georgie (1998), and According to Queeney (2001)
- banderilla — a decorated barbed dart, thrust into the bull's neck or shoulder
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- banistered — Simple past tense and past participle of banister.
- barbarized — Simple past tense and past participle of barbarize.
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- barricaded — a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
- barricades — Plural form of barricade.
- bartending — to serve or work as a bartender.
- bastardise — to lower in condition or worth; debase: hybrid works that neither preserve nor bastardize existing art forms.
- bastardize — to debase; corrupt
- baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
- be friends — to be friendly (with)
- bed-sitter — a combination bedroom and sitting room.
- bedsprings — Plural form of bedspring.
- bee orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys apifera, whose flower resembles a bumble bee in shape and colour
- befriended — to make friends or become friendly with; act as a friend to; help; aid: to befriend the poor and the weak.
- befriender — a person who befriends
- begrudging — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
- belt drive — a transmission system using a flexible belt to transfer power
- benzedrine — amphetamine
- beribboned — adorned with ribbons
- bernardine — a monk of one of the reformed and stricter branches of the Cistercian order
- besmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- bewildered — If you are bewildered, you are very confused and cannot understand something or decide what you should do.
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bifluoride — an acid salt of hydrofluoric acid containing the group HF 2 -, as ammonium bifluoride, NH 4 HF 2.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- big dipper — A big dipper is a fairground ride that carries people up and down steep slopes on a narrow railway at high speed.
- bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
- biliverdin — a dark green pigment in the bile formed by the oxidation of bilirubin. Formula: C33H34O6N4
- billfolder — billfold.
- biodegrade — to decompose (something)
- biodiverse — containing a wide variety of plant and animal species
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
- 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.
- bird's-eye — seen or photographed from high above
- birddogged — characterized by being pursued with determination
- birkenhead — a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop: 83 729 (2001)
- birth-date — the date of a person’s birth, usually expressed as a specific day, month, and year.
- bitter end — the end of a line, chain, or cable, esp the end secured in the chain locker of a vessel
- bitterweed — any of various plants that contain a bitter-tasting substance