10-letter words containing i, c, e, d
- alcibiades — 450–404 bc, Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War: brilliant, courageous, and unstable, he defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the Athenian victories at Abydos (411) and Cyzicus (410)
- aldermanic — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- alice band — an ornamental band worn across the front of the hair to hold it back from the face
- androecium — the stamens of a flowering plant collectively
- androgenic — any substance, as testosterone or androsterone, that promotes male characteristics.
- anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
- anglecized — Misspelling of anglicized.
- anglicised — Made into a form similar to that used by the English.
- anglicized — having become or been made English in outlook, attitude, form, etc
- anteceding — to go before, in time, order, rank, etc.; precede: Shakespeare antecedes Milton.
- aphidicide — substance for killing aphids
- apodeictic — unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration
- appendical — (generally, chiefly of a book's or of books') Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an appendix or appendices.
- appendices — Appendices is a plural form of appendix.
- appendicle — a small appendage
- archfiends — Plural form of archfiend.
- archimedes — ?287–212 bc, Greek mathematician and physicist of Syracuse, noted for his work in geometry, hydrostatics, and mechanics
- ascaridole — a liquid, C 10 H 16 O 2 , constituting the active principle of chenopodium oil, used chiefly as a catalyst in polymerization reactions.
- ascendible — Capable of being ascended; climbable.
- associated — If one thing is associated with another, the two things are connected with each other.
- audacities — Plural form of audacity.
- audiogenic — caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency
- auspicated — Simple past tense and past participle of auspicate.
- avoidances — Plural form of avoidance.
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- backfilled — Simple past tense and past participle of backfill.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backwinded — Simple past tense and past participle of backwind.
- 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.
- beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
- bee orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys apifera, whose flower resembles a bumble bee in shape and colour
- benedicite — (esp in Christian religious orders) a blessing or grace
- benedict i — died a.d. 579, pope 575–79.
- benedict v — died a.d. 966, pope 964.
- benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
- besmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- 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.
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- 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.
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.