10-letter words containing b, a, l
- 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)
- banja luka — a city in NW Bosnia-Herzegovina, on the Vrbas River: scene of battles between the Austrians and Turks in 1527, 1688, and 1737; besieged by Serb forces (1992–95). Pop: 182 000 (2005 est)
- bank clerk — an employee of a bank
- bank vault — a strongroom in a bank for the storage of valuable items
- bankrolled — money in one's possession; monetary resources.
- bankroller — the person or organization that provides the finance for a project, business, etc
- bar-le-duc — Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- barbellate — (of plants or plant organs) covered with barbs, hooks, or bristles
- barbirolli — Sir John. 1899–1970, English conductor of the Hallé Orchestra (1943–68)
- barcaroles — Plural form of barcarole.
- barcarolle — a boating song of the Venetian gondoliers.
- bardolater — someone who practises bardolatry
- bardolator — (usually, pejorative) One who loves or worships the works of William Shakespeare.
- bardolatry — idolatry or excessive admiration of William Shakespeare
- bare metal — 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new computer. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot PROMs and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new computer a real development environment. 2. "Programming on the bare metal" is also used to describe a style of hand-hacking that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, especially tricks for speed and space optimisation that rely on crocks such as overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in The Story of Mel, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimise fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the relative costs of programming time and computer resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems, and in the code of hackers who just can't let go of that low-level control. See Real Programmer. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming is often considered a Good Thing, or at least a necessary evil (because these computers have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS interface and writing the application to directly access device registers and computer addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing well are held in high regard.
- barelegged — having uncovered legs
- bargepoles — Plural form of bargepole.
- bark cloth — a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia
- barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- barneveldt — ˈJan van Olden (ˌjɑnˈvɑn ɔldən ) ; yänˌvän ôlˈdən) 1547-1619; Du. statesman & patriot
- 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)
- baroclinic — of, relating to, or having the property of baroclinity.
- barophilic — (of living organisms) growing best in conditions of high atmospheric pressure
- barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
- 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.
- barrelhead — the round and flat end of a barrel
- barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- bartolozzi — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1725?–1815? Italian engraver.
- bas-relief — Bas-relief is a technique of sculpture in which shapes are carved so that they stand out from the background.
- basal body — a cylindrical organelle, within the cytoplasm of flagellated and ciliated cells, that contains microtubules and forms the base of a flagellum or cilium: identical in internal structure to a centriole.
- basal cell — a cell of the basal, or deepest, layer of the epidermis
- basal disk — the flattened basal surface by which coelenterate polyps attach to the substrate.
- 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.
- baselessly — In a baseless way.
- baseliners — Plural form of baseliner.
- baseplates — Plural form of baseplate.
- basic salt — a salt formed by the partial neutralization of a base.
- basic slag — a furnace slag produced in steel-making, containing large amounts of calcium phosphate: used as a fertilizer
- basilectal — (linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect.
- basilicata — a region of S Italy, between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Gulf of Taranto. Capital: Potenza. Pop: 596 821 (2003 est). Area: 9985 sq km (3855 sq miles)
- basketball — Basketball is a game in which two teams of five players each try to score goals by throwing a large ball through a circular net fixed to a metal ring at each end of the court.