10-letter words containing a, b, o, l
- block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
- blockboard — a type of plywood in which soft wood strips are bonded together and sandwiched between two layers of veneer
- bloggerati — those considered to be important or influential in the world of blogging
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- blood bank — A blood bank is a place where blood which has been taken from blood donors is stored until it is needed for people in hospital.
- blood bath — a killing of many people; massacre
- blood heat — Blood heat is a temperature of 37°C, which is about the same as the normal temperature of the human body.
- blood meal — the dried blood of animals used as a fertilizer, diet supplement for livestock, or deer repellent.
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- bloviation — a lengthy but insubstantial speech
- blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
- bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
- board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
- bobble hat — A bobble hat is a woollen hat with a bobble on it.
- bobblehead — a collectable doll with a bobbing oversized head representing a celebrity or a cartoon character
- bobby calf — an unweaned calf culled for slaughter
- bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
- bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
- bolan pass — a mountain pass in W central Pakistan through the Brahui Range, between Sibi and Quetta, rising to 1800 m (5900 ft)
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- bomb blast — the impact caused by a bomb
- bomb lance — a harpoon fitted with an explosive head.
- bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
- bonnilasse — a pretty girl
- bonus ball — (in the National Lottery draw) a ball randomly selected after the first six balls, containing a number which influences the amount of prize money paid
- book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- booty call — a meeting arranged for the purpose of having sex
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.
- borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- bottle cap — a device for closing or sealing a bottle, especially a metal cover with a cork gasket fitting tightly over the mouth of a glass or plastic bottle, held in place by crimping the edge of the cap over the lip or flange of the bottle.
- bottlehead — bottlenose (def 2).
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- boucicault — Dion (ˈdaɪɒn), real name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. 1822–90, Irish dramatist and actor. His plays include London Assurance (1841), The Octoroon (1859), and The Shaughran (1874)
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- box social — a fund-raising event at which donated box meals are auctioned
- box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- brahmaloka — the highest part of Kamaloka, where refined souls exist in blissful contemplation of Brahma.
- 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.
- brazilwood — a hard, reddish wood obtained from several tropical American trees (genera Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon) of the caesalpinia family: it yields a red or blue dye and is also used in making cabinets and violin bows
- bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread