10-letter words containing b, l, u, e, i
- blue devil — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
- blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
- blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
- blue ridge — a mountain range extending SW from N Virginia to N Georgia: part of the Appalachian Mountains.
- blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
- blue shift — a shift toward shorter wavelengths of the spectral lines of a celestial object, caused by the motion of the object toward the observer.
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- blue-devil — blue heaven.
- blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
- bluefields — a city in SW West Virginia.
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
- blush wine — any of certain wines similar in style to dry white wine although slightly pink in color: made like rosé from red-wine grapes, and often named by the grape's name preceded by “white,” as white zinfandel
- 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
- bouillotte — a French card game similar to poker
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- 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.
- brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
- bubbliness — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- bulletined — a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public.
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
- burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- bushelling — alteration of clothes
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- cherubical — Cherubic.
- cherublike — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- circulable — able to be circulated
- clubbiness — the state of being clubby
- columbines — Plural form of columbine.
- cuba libre — a drink of rum, cola, lime juice, and ice
- cultivable — (of land) capable of being cultivated
- deductible — If a payment or expense is deductible, it can be deducted from another sum such as your income, for example, when calculating how much income tax you have to pay.
- diffusible — capable of being diffused.
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- dissoluble — capable of being dissolved: tablets dissoluble in water.
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.