10-letter words containing b, a, s, e, l, i
- bill gates — (person) William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. He was a computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes, February 3, 1976).
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- 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 stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- bonnilasse — a pretty girl
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
- breastrail — the upper rail of any parapet on a ship
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- 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.
- cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
- calibrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calibrate.
- cantabiles — Plural form of cantabile.
- capsizable — able to be capsized
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- catabolise — to cause (a nutrient or other substance) to undergo catabolism.
- cognisable — Alternative form of cognizable.
- cranesbill — any of various plants of the genus Geranium, having pink or purple flowers and long slender beaked fruits: family Geraniaceae
- debasingly — In a debasing manner.
- defeasible — (of an estate or interest in land) capable of being defeated or rendered void
- descriable — Capable of being descried (detected or perceived).
- deshabille — the state of being partly or carelessly dressed
- desirables — Plural form of desirable.
- desireable — Archaic form of desirable.
- despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- despisable — deserving of being despised; despicable
- digestable — (obsolete, or, nonstandard) alt form digestible.
- disenabled — Simple past tense and past participle of disenable.
- disenables — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenable.
- dishabille — the state of being dressed in a careless, disheveled, or disorderly style or manner; undress.
- dislikable — Not capable or worthy of being liked; not liked; regarded with displeasure or aversion.
- disposable — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- dissipable — capable of being dissipated
- disyllable — a word of two syllables.
- embolismal — relating to embolism, being the insertion of one or more days into a calendar
- epiblastic — Of, or relating to the epiblast.
- expansible — Expandable.
- expansibly — in an expansible manner
- false ribs — any of the lower five ribs on either side of the body, which are not directly attached to the sternum.
- fiberglass — a material consisting of extremely fine filaments of glass that are combined in yarn and woven into fabrics, used in masses as a thermal and acoustical insulator, or embedded in various resins to make boat hulls, fishing rods, and the like.
- fibreglass — Silica based glass extruded into fibers that possess a length at least 1000 times greater than their width.
- finishable — That can be finished; completable.