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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.
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