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

  • bestialize — to make bestial or brutal
  • bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
  • bestseller — A bestseller is a book of which a great number of copies has been sold.
  • betelgeuse — a very remote luminous red supergiant, Alpha Orionis: the second brightest star in the constellation Orion. It is a variable star
  • betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
  • bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
  • 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).
  • billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
  • bimestrial — lasting for two months
  • bio-diesel — Bio-diesel is diesel fuel made from biological or natural sources.
  • bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
  • bipetalous — having two petals
  • bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
  • birtwistle — Sir Harrison. born 1934, English composer, whose works include the operas Punch and Judy (1967), The Mask of Orpheus (1984), Gawain (1991), Exody (1998), and The Minotaur (2008)
  • bissextile — (of a month or year) containing the extra day of a leap year
  • bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
  • bisulphide — a disulfide.
  • bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
  • 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.
  • 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
  • blade slap — the regular noise beat generated by the rotor blades of a helicopter
  • blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
  • blandisher — someone who blandishes
  • 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
  • blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
  • blind seed — a disease of ryegrass, characterized by shriveled, soft seeds, caused by a fungus, Phialea temulenta.
  • blind side — the side of the field between the scrum and the nearer touchline
  • blind test — a test in which the participants cannot identify the products that they are testing
  • blind-side — the part of one's field of vision, as to the side and rear, where one is unable to see approaching objects.
  • blindsided — Sports. to tackle, hit, or attack (an opponent) from the blind side: The quarterback was blindsided and had the ball knocked out of his hand.
  • blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
  • blitheness — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
  • blithesome — cheery; merry
  • blitzstein — Marc, 1905–64, U.S. composer.
  • blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
  • blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
  • blood test — A blood test is a medical examination of a small amount of your blood.
  • bloodiness — the state of being bloody
  • bloodstone — a dark-green variety of chalcedony with red spots: used as a gemstone
  • blottesque — (of a painting) crudely executed, often characterized by blots and smears
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