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10-letter words containing a, b, l, e

  • barcaroles — Plural form of barcarole.
  • barcarolle — a boating song of the Venetian gondoliers.
  • bardolater — someone who practises bardolatry
  • bare metal — 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new computer. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot PROMs and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new computer a real development environment. 2. "Programming on the bare metal" is also used to describe a style of hand-hacking that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, especially tricks for speed and space optimisation that rely on crocks such as overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in The Story of Mel, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimise fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the relative costs of programming time and computer resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems, and in the code of hackers who just can't let go of that low-level control. See Real Programmer. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming is often considered a Good Thing, or at least a necessary evil (because these computers have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS interface and writing the application to directly access device registers and computer addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing well are held in high regard.
  • barelegged — having uncovered legs
  • bargepoles — Plural form of bargepole.
  • barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
  • barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
  • barneveldt — ˈJan van Olden (ˌjɑnˈvɑn ɔldən ) ; yänˌvän ôlˈdən) 1547-1619; Du. statesman & patriot
  • barnstable — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • barnstaple — a town in SW England, in Devon, on the estuary of the River Taw: tourism, agriculture. Pop: 30 765 (2001)
  • barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
  • barrel ass — to charge headlong; move at high speed.
  • barrel-ass — to charge headlong; move at high speed.
  • barrelfish — a blackish stromateid fish, Hyperoglyphe perciformis, inhabiting New England coastal waters.
  • barrelfuls — Plural form of barrelful.
  • barrelhead — the round and flat end of a barrel
  • barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
  • bas-relief — Bas-relief is a technique of sculpture in which shapes are carved so that they stand out from the background.
  • basal cell — a cell of the basal, or deepest, layer of the epidermis
  • basaltware — hard fine-grained black stoneware, made in Europe, esp in England, in the late 18th century
  • base level — the lowest level to which a land surface can be eroded by streams, which is, ultimately, sea level
  • base metal — A base metal is a metal such as copper, zinc, tin, or lead that is not a precious metal.
  • baseballer — a person who plays baseball
  • basel-land — a demicanton in N Switzerland. 165 sq. mi. (425 sq. km). Capital: Liestal.
  • baselessly — In a baseless way.
  • baseliners — Plural form of baseliner.
  • baseplates — Plural form of baseplate.
  • basilectal — (linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect.
  • basketball — Basketball is a game in which two teams of five players each try to score goals by throwing a large ball through a circular net fixed to a metal ring at each end of the court.
  • basketlike — resembling a basket
  • basophiles — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
  • bass flute — the lowest instrument in the flute family, pitched one octave below the concert flute
  • batch file — a computer file with sequential commands to be executed when the file is read
  • bath towel — A bath towel is a very large towel used for drying your body after you have had a bath.
  • batteilant — fighting; combatant
  • battle cry — A battle cry is a phrase that is used to encourage people to support a particular cause or campaign.
  • battle-axe — If you call a middle-aged or older woman a battle-axe, you mean she is very difficult and unpleasant because of her fierce and determined attitude.
  • battleaxes — Plural form of battleaxe.
  • battledore — an ancient racket game
  • battlement — a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures, originally for shooting through
  • battleship — A battleship is a very large, heavily armed warship.
  • battlesome — argumentative; quarrelsome.
  • battlesuit — (science fiction) A technologically enhanced suit worn in battle for protection, camouflage, etc.
  • baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
  • bay antler — the second branch from the base of a deer's horn
  • bay laurel — a small evergreen Mediterranean laurel, Laurus nobilis, with glossy aromatic leaves, used for flavouring in cooking, and small blackish berries
  • be able to — If you are able to do something, you have skills or qualities which make it possible for you to do it.
  • be all for — to be strongly in favour of
  • beach ball — A beach ball is a large, light ball filled with air, which people play with, especially on the beach.
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