10-letter words containing ai
- bird-brain — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
- blainville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- boat train — A boat train is a train that takes you to or from a port.
- bomb aimer — a person whose job is to aim a bomb to be dropped from an aircraft
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
- braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
- brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
- brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
- 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).
- brain fart — (jargon, humour) 1. The actual result of a braino, as opposed to the mental glitch that is the braino itself. E.g. typing "dir" on a Unix box after a session with MS-DOS. 2. A biproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly. A burst of useful information. "I know you're busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?"
- brain gain — the immigration into a country of scientists, technologists, academics, etc, attracted by better pay, equipment, or conditions
- brain scan — an examination of the brain, using radiological scanning techniques, used in medical diagnosis and scientific research
- brain stem — the portion of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord and comprises the medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain, and parts of the hypothalamus, functioning in the control of reflexes and such essential internal mechanisms as respiration and heartbeat.
- brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz
- brain-dead — If someone is declared brain-dead, they have suffered brain death.
- brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- breastrail — the upper rail of any parapet on a ship
- bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
- brno chair — an armchair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless steel composed of two interlocking parts, one forming the legs and arms and the other the seat and back frame, with the back and seat lightly upholstered and usually covered with leather.
- bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
- cable-laid — (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction
- caipirinha — A Brazilian cocktail made with cachaca, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and crushed ice.
- caipiroska — a cocktail drink containing vodka, lime juice, sugar, and crushed ice, based on the Caipirinha cocktail but with vodka replacing the Brazilian rum-like spirit Cachaça
- camel hair — the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
- camel-hair — A camel-hair coat is made of a kind of soft, thick woollen cloth, usually creamy-brown in colour.
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- camp chair — a lightweight folding chair
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- can't wait — be impatient for
- cane chair — a chair, the back and seat of which are made of interlaced strips of cane.
- capillaire — a syrup flavoured with maidenhair fern or orange flower water
- captaining — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- cassegrain — of an arrangement of mirrors, lenses, etc. used in reflecting telescopes and microwave antennas, having its focus or transmission point near or behind the center of the main mirror
- certainity — Misspelling of certainty.
- ch'ing hai — a lake in W central China, in NE Qinghai province. 2300 sq. mi. (5950 sq. km).
- ch'ing-hai — Qing Hai.
- chaikovski — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich.
- chain fern — any of several ferns of the genus Woodwardia, having a chainlike row of sori on either side of the midrib of each fertile leaflet.
- chain gang — In the United States, a chain gang is a group of prisoners who are chained together to do work outside their prison. Chain gangs existed especially in former times.
- chain gear — a gear assembly in which motion is transmitted by means of a chain.
- chain mail — Chain mail is a kind of armour made from small metal rings joined together so that they look like cloth.
- chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.