10-letter words containing a, b, l
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- brilliancy — an instance of brilliance: the brilliancies of Congreve's wit.
- brilliante — with spirit; lively
- brillo pad — a scouring pad made of wire wool filled with soap
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- broad seal — the official seal of a nation and its government
- broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
- broadlands — a Palladian mansion near Romsey in Hampshire: formerly the home of Lord Palmerston and Lord Mountbatten
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
- brocatelle — a heavy brocade with the design in deep relief, used chiefly in upholstery
- brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
- brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
- brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
- bubble tea — a cold drink, originally from Taiwan, of tea infused with fruit flavouring, shaken to produce bubbles, and served over tapioca pearls in a clear cup. It is usually drunk through a very wide straw
- bubblehead — a frivolous person
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- bufflehead — a small North American diving duck, Bucephala (or Glaucionetta) albeola: the male has black-and-white plumage and a fluffy head
- bugger all — Bugger all is a rude way of saying 'nothing'.
- bugger-all — absolutely nothing; nothing at all: Those reckless investments left him with bugger-all.
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
- bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
- bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
- bullethead — a head considered similar in shape to a bullet, as that of a person with a high, domelike forehead and cranium and short hair.
- bullheaded — blindly stubborn; headstrong
- bullroarer — a wooden slat attached to a thong that makes a roaring sound when the thong is whirled: used esp by native Australians in religious rites
- bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
- bump along — advance unevenly
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- bush basil — See under basil.
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- butt plate — a plate made usually of metal and attached to the butt end of a gunstock
- butterball — a chubby or fat person
- buttonball — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
- butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
- buzz along — a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cabalistic — of or relating to the cabala.
- cable bend — a knot or clinch for attaching a cable to an anchor or mooring post.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch