10-letter words containing a, l, n
- blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
- blue jeans — Blue jeans are the same as jeans.
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- blues band — a band that plays the blues
- bnr pascal — ["Remote Rendezvous", N. Gammage et al, Soft Prac & Exp 17(10):741-755 (Oct 1987)].
- bolan pass — a mountain pass in W central Pakistan through the Brahui Range, between Sibi and Quetta, rising to 1800 m (5900 ft)
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- 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
- 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.
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- 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.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
- brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
- branglings — a series of squabbles or disputes
- brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
- brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
- bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- brilliancy — an instance of brilliance: the brilliancies of Congreve's wit.
- brilliante — with spirit; lively
- broadlands — a Palladian mansion near Romsey in Hampshire: formerly the home of Lord Palmerston and Lord Mountbatten
- 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.
- 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.
- bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
- bump along — advance unevenly
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- 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.
- cable bend — a knot or clinch for attaching a cable to an anchor or mooring post.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
- cache line — (storage) (Or cache block) The smallest unit of memory than can be transferred between the main memory and the cache. Rather than reading a single word or byte from main memory at a time, each cache entry is usually holds a certain number of words, known as a "cache line" or "cache block" and a whole line is read and cached at once. This takes advantage of the principle of locality of reference: if one location is read then nearby locations (particularly following locations) are likely to be read soon afterward. It can also take advantage of page-mode DRAM which allows faster access to consecutive locations.
- caecilians — Plural form of caecilian.
- cajolement — The act of cajoling or the state of being cajoled.
- cajolingly — In a cajoling manner.
- calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
- calamondin — a small citrus tree, Citrus mitis, of the Philippines
- calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
- calcedonio — a type of Venetian opaque glassware, with veins of colour, intended to imitate chalcedony
- calcimined — Simple past tense and past participle of calcimine.