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10-letter words containing b, e, l, r

  • bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
  • bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
  • blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
  • bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
  • blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
  • blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
  • blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
  • board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
  • bobsledder — a person who bobsleds
  • bog myrtle — sweet gale.
  • bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
  • bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
  • boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
  • bois brule — métis (def 2).
  • bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
  • boldrewood — Rolf, real name Thomas Alexander Browne. 1826–1915, Australian writer, born in the UK, noted for his novels of the Australian outback, esp Robbery Under Arms (1882–3)
  • bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
  • bondholder — A bondholder is a person who owns one or more investment bonds.
  • book lover — a person who enjoys reading and reads more than the average person
  • bookseller — A bookseller is a person who sells books.
  • bootlegger — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bootloader — a bootstrap loader
  • bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
  • borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.
  • borderless — without a band or margin around or along the edge
  • borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
  • borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
  • bottletree — any of a genus (Brachychiton) of trees of the sterculia family, native to Australia, some of which have a swollen, bottle-shaped trunk
  • bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
  • boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
  • bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
  • bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
  • bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
  • box clever — to behave in a careful and cunning way
  • box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
  • braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
  • bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
  • brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
  • bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
  • bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread
  • bread roll — a small piece of bread dough made into a circular shape and baked
  • break bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • break-bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • breakables — objects that are delicate and could be easily broken
  • breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
  • breastrail — the upper rail of any parapet on a ship
  • breathable — A breathable fabric allows air to pass through it easily, so that clothing made from it does not become too warm or uncomfortable.
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