10-letter words containing l, d, c
- ascaridole — a liquid, C 10 H 16 O 2 , constituting the active principle of chenopodium oil, used chiefly as a catalyst in polymerization reactions.
- ascendable — having the ability to be ascended
- ascendible — Capable of being ascended; climbable.
- audiologic — of or relating to audiology
- autoclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of autoclave.
- avalanched — Simple past tense and past participle of avalanche.
- back-pedal — If you back-pedal, you express a different or less forceful opinion about something from the one you have previously expressed.
- backfilled — Simple past tense and past participle of backfill.
- backlashed — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backlogged — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- backpaddle — to propel a boat by paddling backward, as by using a stroke in the direction of stern to bow.
- backpedals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backpedal.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backvelder — a person who lives in a backveld
- backwardly — In a backward direction.
- bald-faced — barefaced (def 2).
- baldacchin — A rich, embroidered brocade used for clothing in the Middle Ages, the web being gold and the woof silk.
- baldachins — Plural form of baldachin.
- 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.
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
- bedclothes — Bedclothes are the sheets and covers which you put over yourself when you get into bed.
- belowdecks — below a ship's deck
- bespeckled — to speckle.
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- black body — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- black code — any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black disc — a conventional black vinyl gramophone record as opposed to a compact disc
- black duck — a sooty brown, wild duck (Anas rubripes) of E North America
- black gold — petroleum
- black hand — a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century
- black land — a black, clayey soil.
- black lead — to colour or rub with black lead
- black mold — any fungus of the family Mucoraceae, especially Rhizopus nigricans, that forms a black, furry coating on foodstuffs.
- blackbeard — nickname of (Edward) Teach
- blackboard — A blackboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Blackboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
- blacklands — an area of fertile soil in Texas
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- blind copy — a copy of a letter or the like, the original of which bears no evidence that the copy was sent to some other person.
- blockboard — a type of plywood in which soft wood strips are bonded together and sandwiched between two layers of veneer
- blood cell — any of the cells that circulate in the blood
- blood clot — a clotted mass of blood
- bloodstock — Horses that are bred for racing are referred to as bloodstock.
- blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
- body clock — Your body clock is the internal biological mechanism which causes your body to automatically behave in particular ways at particular times of the day.