10-letter words containing a, n, i, l, e
- ballsiness — daring; courage
- balneation — the act of bathing
- banalities — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- banderilla — a decorated barbed dart, thrust into the bull's neck or shoulder
- bandinelli — Baccio [baht-chaw] /ˈbɑt tʃɔ/ (Show IPA), or Bartolommeo [bahr-taw-lawm-me-aw] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔmˈmɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1493–1560, Italian sculptor.
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- baseliners — Plural form of baseliner.
- batteilant — fighting; combatant
- bedazzling — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- bellarmine — Saint Robert. 1542–1621, Italian Jesuit theologian and cardinal; an important influence during the Counter-Reformation
- bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
- bellinzona — a town in SE central Switzerland, capital of Ticino canton. Pop: 16 463 (2000)
- beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
- berkeleian — denoting or relating to the philosophy of George Berkeley
- biannulate — having two bands, esp of colour
- biennially — happening every two years: biennial games.
- bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
- binoxalate — an acid containing the group HC 2 O 4 –, as ammonium binoxalate, C 2 H 5 NO 4 ⋅H 2 O.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
- biparental — from two parents
- blabbering — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- blainville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- blanc fixe — barium sulfate
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- 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 stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- bonnilasse — a pretty girl
- brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
- bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- brilliante — with spirit; lively
- 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.
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- 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.
- calcedonio — a type of Venetian opaque glassware, with veins of colour, intended to imitate chalcedony
- calcimined — Simple past tense and past participle of calcimine.
- calciminer — A person who calcimines.
- calcimines — Plural form of calcimine.
- calcinable — able to be calcined
- calcsinter — travertine.
- caledonian — of or relating to Scotland
- calliopean — resembling a calliope in sound; piercingly loud: a calliopean voice.
- calumniate — to slander