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

  • bitterwood — any of several simaroubaceous trees of the genus Picrasma of S and SE Asia and the Caribbean, whose bitter bark and wood are used in medicine as a substitute for quassia
  • blandisher — someone who blandishes
  • blow-dried — dried using hairdryer
  • blue ridge — a mountain range extending SW from N Virginia to N Georgia: part of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
  • board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
  • bodhi tree — the sacred peepul at Buddh Gaya under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha
  • bombardier — the member of a bomber aircrew responsible for aiming and releasing the bombs
  • bookbinder — A bookbinder is a person whose job is fastening books together and putting covers on them.
  • bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
  • borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
  • bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
  • bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
  • bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
  • box girder — a girder that is hollow and square or rectangular in shape
  • bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
  • bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
  • brain-dead — If someone is declared brain-dead, they have suffered brain death.
  • brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
  • 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
  • breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
  • breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
  • brian reid — (person)   The person who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with John Gilmore.
  • brickfield — an area of ground where bricks are made
  • bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
  • bridegroom — A bridegroom is a man who is getting married.
  • bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
  • 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.
  • bridgehead — A bridgehead is a good position which an army has taken in the enemy's territory and from which it can advance or attack.
  • bridgeport — a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)
  • bridgetalk — (language)   A visual language.
  • bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
  • bridgetree — a beam supporting the shaft on which an upper millstone rotates.
  • 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
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