10-letter words containing t, b
- divestible — capable of being divested, as an estate in land.
- docibility — the capacity to be taught easily; docility
- dog basket — a basket for a dog to sleep in
- doorbuster — Informal. a retail item that is heavily discounted for a very limited time in order to draw customers to the store. the price of such an item.
- dorbeetles — Plural form of dorbeetle.
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-cut — noting a file having parallel cutting ridges crisscrossing in two directions.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- doubtfully — of uncertain outcome or result.
- doubtingly — In a doubting manner.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- draft beer — beer drawn or available to be drawn from a cask or barrel.
- draft tube — the flared passage leading vertically from a water turbine to its tailrace.
- draw table — a table having one or more sliding leaves that may be drawn out as an extension.
- dreamboats — Plural form of dreamboat.
- drift tube — a conducting enclosure, usually cylindrical, held at a constant potential so that electrons or charged particles within will experience no force, and therefore no change in velocity. Compare Klystron.
- drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
- drug habit — addiction to recreational drugs
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- drumbeater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- dubitation — doubt.
- dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- durability — able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- dust bunny — Slang. a loose, tangled ball of dust, lint, hair, etc., especially as found under a low piece of furniture.
- dust-bathe — (of a bird) to squat in dusty soil and fluff dust through the plumage: probably performed to combat ectoparasites.
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- duty-bound — If you say you are duty-bound to do something, you are emphasizing that you feel it is your duty to do it.
- dyeability — Quality or degree of being dyeable.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- ebionitism — The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
- eboulement — a collapse; cave-in.
- ebracteate — having no bracts.
- ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- educatable — capable of being educated.
- effectible — (dated, 1600s) Capable of being done or achieved.
- egg beater — a small rotary beater for beating eggs, whipping cream, etc.
- egg-beater — a small rotary beater for beating eggs, whipping cream, etc.
- eggbeaters — Plural form of eggbeater.
- eight ball — a black ball with the number eight on it
- elaborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elaborate.
- elaborator — One who, or that which, elaborates.