8-letter words containing t, e, d
- authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- autocade — a procession or parade of automobiles; motorcade.
- autocide — suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving.
- autocode — (language) 1. The assembly language accepted by AUTOCODER. 2. A generic term for symbolic assembly language. Versions of Autocode were developed for Ferranti Atlas, Titan, Mercury and Pegasus and IBM 702 and IBM 705.
- autodyne — denoting or relating to an electrical circuit in which the same elements and valves are used as oscillator and detector
- azotized — Simple past tense and past participle of azotize.
- b-method — (programming, tool) A system for rigorous or formal development of software using the notion of Abstract Machines to specify and design software systems. The B-Method is supported by the B-Toolkit. Abstract Machines are specified using the Abstract Machine Notation (AMN) which is in turn based on the mathematical theory of Generalised Substitutions.
- backdate — If a document or an arrangement is backdated, it is valid from a date before the date when it is completed or signed.
- bad debt — A bad debt is a sum of money that has been lent but is not likely to be repaid.
- bad time — inopportune moment
- baldpate — a person with a bald head
- balloted — a slip or sheet of paper, cardboard, or the like, on which a voter marks his or her vote.
- bandelet — a small band of any kind, particularly one worn around the head
- bandmate — a fellow member of a band
- bandster — a person who goes behind a reaper and binds sheaves of wheat
- banstead — a town in S England, in NE Surrey. Pop: 19 332 (2001)
- bantered — Simple past tense and past participle of banter.
- baptised — to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism: They baptized the new baby.
- baptized — Simple past tense and past participle of baptize.
- bartered — to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.
- basseted — an outcrop, as of the edges of strata.
- bastides — Plural form of bastide.
- battened — Simple past tense and past participle of batten.
- battered — Something that is battered is old and in poor condition because it has been used a lot.
- beatdown — A physical beating or assault.
- bed bolt — a bolt on a bed for attaching a side rail to the head or foot.
- bed rest — a period of resting in bed
- bed tray — a meal tray with legs or supports at each end to fit across the lap of a person who is sitting up in bed.
- bed-rest — a prolonged rest in bed, as in the treatment of an illness.
- bedights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedight.
- bedlight — a bedlamp.
- bedotted — covered with dots; speckled
- bedplate — a heavy metal platform or frame to which an engine or machine is attached
- bedposts — one of the upright supports of a bedstead.
- bedquilt — a padded bedcover
- bedright — a right expected in the marital bed
- bedsheet — a sheet for a bed
- bedstand — a bedside table
- bedstead — A bedstead is the metal or wooden frame of an old-fashioned bed.
- bedstone — A large, heavy, flat stone used to support a column or similar member, or as the lower stone of an oil mill.
- bedstraw — any of numerous rubiaceous plants of the genus Galium, which have small white or yellow flowers and prickly or hairy fruits: some species formerly used as straw for beds as they are aromatic when dry
- bedworth — a town in central England, in N Warwickshire. Pop: 30 001 (2001)
- behatted — wearing a hat
- benedict — Saint. ?480–?547 ad, Italian monk: founded the Benedictine order at Monte Cassino in Italy in about 540 ad. His Regula Monachorum became the basis of the rule of all Western Christian monastic orders. Feast day: July 11 or March 14
- bentwood — wood bent in moulds after being heated by steaming, used mainly for furniture
- bertrand — a masculine name
- besotted — If you are besotted with someone or something, you like them so much that you seem foolish or silly.
- best end — the end of the neck of lamb, pork, etc, nearest to the ribs
- bestowed — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- bestride — To bestride something means to be the most powerful and important person or thing in it.