10-letter words containing b, a, l, e
- black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
- blackbeard — nickname of (Edward) Teach
- blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
- blackfella — an Aborigine or Black person
- blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
- blackheath — a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen
- blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
- bladdernut — any temperate shrub or small tree of the genus Staphylea, esp S. pinnata of S Europe, that has bladder-like seed pods: family Staphyleaceae
- bladderpod — any of several plants belonging to the genera Alyssoides and Lesquerella, of the mustard family, having inflated seed pods.
- blade slap — the regular noise beat generated by the rotor blades of a helicopter
- blainville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blanc fixe — barium sulfate
- blancmange — Blancmange is a cold dessert that is made from milk, sugar, cornflour or corn starch, and flavouring, and looks rather like jelly.
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
- blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
- blanquette — a French stew made of meat, usually veal, and white sauce
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemes — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blast cell — any undifferentiated or immature cell.
- blast wave — a violent propagating disturbance, produced by an explosion in air, that consists of an abrupt rise in pressure followed by a drop in pressure to or below atmospheric pressure.
- blastocoel — the cavity within a blastula
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
- blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blaze away — to fire a gun rapidly a number of times
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- 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 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.
- blue agave — a Mexican plant, Agave tequilana variant weber, with blue leaves, used in tequila.
- blue alert — (in military or civilian defense) an alert following the first, or yellow, alert, in which air attack seems probable.
- blue angel — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
- blue crane — the great blue heron.
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
- blue flash — green flash.
- 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 grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)