10-letter words containing r, a, d, b
- half-board — demi-pension (def 1).
- half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
- hand brake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- handballer — A handball player.
- handbarrow — a frame with handles at each end by which it is carried.
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.
- handlebars — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
- harborside — bordering a harbor.
- hard labor — compulsory labor imposed upon criminals in addition to imprisonment, generally not exceeding ordinary labor in severity or amount.
- hard-bound — hardcover
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.
- hardballer — (informal) One who exhibits hardball (tough or ruthless) behaviour.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hardenable — to make hard or harder: to harden steel.
- hardenberg — Novalis.
- headbanger — metalhead.
- headboards — Plural form of headboard.
- hebdomadar — (in Scottish universities and grammar schools) a name given to the member of staff whose weekly turn it is to supervise the behaviour of students
- herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.
- hibernated — Simple past tense and past participle of hibernate.
- high board — a diving board three meters above the water.
- hildebrand — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- hindbrains — Plural form of hindbrain.
- hog badger — a SE Asian badger, Arctonyx collaris, with a piglike mobile snout
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- home brand — an item packaged and marketed under the brand name of a particular retailer, usually a large supermarket chain, rather than that of the manufacturer
- hoverboard — (science fiction) A levitating board that can be ridden in the manner of a surfboard or skateboard.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- hybrid car — vehicle with combined power source
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- imageboard — A type of Internet forum that revolves around the posting of images with minimal associated text.
- imbricated — Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
- inbreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of inbreathe.
- inebriated — to make drunk; intoxicate.
- jaborandis — Plural form of jaborandi.
- judder bar — a bump built across roads, esp in housing estates, to reduce speeding
- jute board — a strong, bendable cardboard made from rags and sulfite, used chiefly in the manufacture of shipping cartons.
- kariba dam — dam on the Zambezi River, on the Zambian-Zimbabwean border: 420 ft (128 m) high: it has created a lake (Kariba Lake), 2,000 sq mi (5,180 sq km)
- keyboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of keyboard.
- keyboarder — One who keyboards; a typist.
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
- labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.
- laminboard — A compound wood board consisting of thin strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of higher quality than blockboard.
- landlubber — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
- laverbread — laver seaweed fried as a breakfast food; popular in Wales
- lay aboard — (formerly) to move alongside a warship to board it
- lear board — (on a sloping roof) a board laid next to the gutter to receive the turned-up edge of the metal lining.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).