10-letter words containing b, a, l, e, s
- astrobleme — a mark on the earth's surface, usually circular, formed by a large ancient meteorite impact
- astrolabes — Plural form of astrolabe.
- attestable — Able to be attested.
- babelesque — resembling the situation at Babel, confused, impeding communication
- baby blues — depression suffered after childbirth
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- backlashed — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backlasher — something or someone who produces a backlash
- backlashes — Plural form of backlash.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backpedals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backpedal.
- backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
- bagatelles — Plural form of bagatelle.
- bailieship — the office or district of a bailie
- bakeapples — Plural form of bakeapple.
- balaustine — of or relating to the pomegranate.
- balderdash — If you say that something that has been said or written is balderdash, you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
- balladeers — Plural form of balladeer.
- ballbuster — Ball-breaker.
- ballerinas — Plural form of ballerina.
- ballistite — a smokeless rocket propellant composed of roughly equal proportions of the explosives nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine
- ballsiness — daring; courage
- baltic sea — a sea in N Europe, connected with the North Sea by the Skagerrak, Kattegat, and Öresund; shallow, with low salinity and small tides
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- bamboozles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bamboozle.
- banalities — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- band shell — an outdoor platform for concerts, having a concave, nearly hemispherical back serving as a sounding board
- banderoles — Plural form of banderole.
- bandoleers — Plural form of bandoleer.
- bandoleros — Plural form of bandolero.
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- bangladesh — a republic in S Asia: formerly the Eastern Province of Pakistan; became independent in 1971 after civil war and the defeat of Pakistan by India; consists of the plains and vast deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers; prone to flooding: economy based on jute and jute products (over 70 per cent of world production); a member of the Commonwealth. Language: Bengali. Religion: Muslim. Currency: taka. Capital: Dhaka. Pop: 163 654 860 (2013 est). Area: 142 797 sq km (55 126 sq miles)
- barcaroles — Plural form of barcarole.
- bargepoles — Plural form of bargepole.
- barnstable — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- barnstaple — a town in SW England, in Devon, on the estuary of the River Taw: tourism, agriculture. Pop: 30 765 (2001)
- barrel ass — to charge headlong; move at high speed.
- barrel-ass — to charge headlong; move at high speed.
- barrelfish — a blackish stromateid fish, Hyperoglyphe perciformis, inhabiting New England coastal waters.
- barrelfuls — Plural form of barrelful.
- bas-relief — Bas-relief is a technique of sculpture in which shapes are carved so that they stand out from the background.
- basal cell — a cell of the basal, or deepest, layer of the epidermis
- basaltware — hard fine-grained black stoneware, made in Europe, esp in England, in the late 18th century
- base level — the lowest level to which a land surface can be eroded by streams, which is, ultimately, sea level
- base metal — A base metal is a metal such as copper, zinc, tin, or lead that is not a precious metal.
- baseballer — a person who plays baseball
- basel-land — a demicanton in N Switzerland. 165 sq. mi. (425 sq. km). Capital: Liestal.