10-letter words containing r, u, d, a
- 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.
- autoloader — stack loader
- autostrada — an Italian motorway
- autowinder — a battery-operated device for advancing the film in a camera automatically after each exposure
- auxocardia — enlargement of the heart, as by hypertrophy or dilatation.
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
- background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- bar-le-duc — Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- bardacious — bodacious.
- barracudas — Plural form of barracuda.
- barramunda — the edible Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, having paddle-like fins and a long body covered with large scales
- barramundi — any of several large edible Australian fishes esp the percoid species Lates calcarifer (family Centropomidae) of NE coastal waters or the freshwater species Scleropages leichardti (family Osteoglossidae) of Queensland
- bat around — to discuss (an idea, proposition, etc) informally
- baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
- beauregard — P(ierre) G(ustave) T(outant) de1818-93; Confederate general
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
- bladdernut — any temperate shrub or small tree of the genus Staphylea, esp S. pinnata of S Europe, that has bladder-like seed pods: family Staphyleaceae
- board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
- boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
- bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).
- brake drum — the cast-iron drum attached to the hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle fitted with drum brakes
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
- 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.
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- broad jump — an exercise and athletic contest in which competitors try to jump the farthest distance possible from a standing start from a fixed board or mark
- broad-jump — long-jump.
- broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
- bubs grade — a baby
- budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
- bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
- burma road — the route extending from Lashio in Burma (now Myanmar) to Chongqing in China, which was used by the Allies during World War II to supply military equipment to Chiang Kai-shek's forces in China
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- cannelured — a groove or fluting around the cylindrical part of a bullet.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- carburized — Simple past tense and past participle of carburize.
- card punch — keypunch (def 1).