10-letter words containing a, b, d
- baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
- baudouin i — 1930–93, king of Belgium (1951–93)
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- bay window — A bay window is a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house.
- bayezid ii — ?1447–1512, sultan of Turkey; he greatly extended Turkish dominions in Greece and the Balkans
- bayonetted — (British) Simple past tense and past participle of bayonet.
- be hard on — to treat severely; be harsh toward
- be made up — to be very happy about something
- beachheads — Plural form of beachhead.
- bead plane — a plane for cutting beads.
- bead plant — a creeping plant, Nertera granadensis, of New Zealand and South America, having leathery leaves and orange-colored, transparent berries.
- beadswoman — a female inhabitant of a beadhouse
- beady-eyed — marked by or having small, glittering eyes, especially eyes that seem to gleam with malice, avarice, or lechery.
- bean aphid — a small, black aphid, Aphis fabae, often found on beans and related plants.
- beard moss — any of several green or yellow lichens of the genus Usnea, having long, threadlike stems in a tangled mass typically hanging from tree branches, and growing in a wide range of habitats from tropical zones to the Arctic.
- beard worm — pogonophoran.
- beatitudes — supreme blessedness; exalted happiness.
- beau ideal — perfect beauty or excellence
- beau monde — the world of fashion and society
- beau-ideal — a conception of perfect beauty.
- beauregard — P(ierre) G(ustave) T(outant) de1818-93; Confederate general
- beautified — Simple past tense and past participle of beautify.
- beaver dam — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
- bedazzling — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- bedchamber — A bedchamber is a bedroom.
- bedeswoman — beadswoman
- bedraggled — Someone or something that is bedraggled looks untidy because they have got wet or dirty.
- bedspreads — Plural form of bedspread.
- bedwarmers — Plural form of bedwarmer.
- beetlehead — a person of low intelligence
- beforehand — If you do something beforehand, you do it earlier than a particular event.
- beg-pardon — an expression of apology (used especially in the phrase with no beg-pardons).
- beggarweed — any of various leguminous plants of the genus Desmodium, esp D. purpureum of the Caribbean, grown in the southern US as forage plants and to improve the soil
- behindhand — If someone is behindhand, they have been delayed or have made less progress in their work than they or other people think they should.
- belladonna — either of two alkaloid drugs, atropine or hyoscyamine, obtained from the leaves and roots of the deadly nightshade
- belly-land — (of an aviator) to land (an aircraft) directly on the fuselage, as because of defective landing gear.
- bellyboard — a small surfboard, usually 3–4 feet (0.9–1.2 meters) long, for riding waves on one's belly, sometimes used in conjunction with swim fins.
- bemedalled — wearing or adorned with many medals: a bemedaled general; wearing a bemedaled military blouse.
- bench-made — (of articles made of leather, wood, etc.) individually produced and finished, as on a carpenter's bench; custom-made.
- bequeathed — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bernadette — a feminine name
- bernadotte — Folke (ˈfɔlke), Count. 1895–1948, Swedish diplomat, noted for his work with the Red Cross during World War II and as United Nations mediator in Palestine (1948). He was assassinated by Jewish terrorists
- bernardine — a monk of one of the reformed and stricter branches of the Cistercian order
- bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
- bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
- beta decay — the radioactive transformation of an atomic nucleus accompanying the emission of an electron. It involves unit change of atomic number but none in mass number
- bide a wee — to stay a little
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- big rapids — a town in central Michigan.