10-letter words containing a, b, u, l
- 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.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- calculable — Calculable amounts or consequences can be calculated.
- calico bug — harlequin bug.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
- catacumbal — of or resembling catacombs
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- censurable — deserving censure, condemnation, or blame
- cherubical — Cherubic.
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- circulable — able to be circulated
- clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
- cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
- club chair — a large, heavily upholstered armchair, usually with a low back
- club class — a class of air travel which is less luxurious than first class but more luxurious than economy class
- club grass — cattail.
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin