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10-letter words containing b, l, u

  • blue angel — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
  • blue beret — an informal name for a soldier of a United Nations peacekeeping force
  • blue blood — If you say that someone has blue blood, you mean that they are from a family that has a high social rank.
  • blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
  • blue crane — the great blue heron.
  • blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
  • 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 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 flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
  • blue flash — green flash.
  • 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 goose — a variety of the snow goose that has a bluish-grey body and white head and neck
  • blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
  • blue heron — any of the American varieties of heron with bluish or bluish-gray plumage, as the great blue heron.
  • blue jeans — Blue jeans are the same as jeans.
  • blue lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
  • blue mould — any fungus of the genus Penicillium that forms a bluish mass on decaying food, leather, etc
  • blue peter — a signal flag of blue with a white square at the centre, displayed by a vessel about to leave port
  • blue phlox — a plant, Phlox divaricata, of eastern North America, having creeping, rooting stems and mauve flowers.
  • blue plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
  • blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
  • blue poppy — a papaveraceous plant, Meconopsis betonicifolia, grown for its showy sky-blue flowers
  • blue racer — a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
  • 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 shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
  • 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 state — a state of the U.S. that usually votes Democratic.
  • blue wavey — See under wavey.
  • blue whale — the largest mammal: a widely distributed bluish-grey whalebone whale, Sibbaldus (or Balaenoptera) musculus, closely related and similar to the rorquals: family Balaenopteridae
  • blue-black — Something that is blue-black is bluish black in colour.
  • blue-curls — any of a genus (Trichostema) of plants of the mint family, with downy, narrow leaves and blue flowers
  • blue-devil — blue heaven.
  • blue-green — a color about midway between blue and green in the spectrum.
  • blue-plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
  • blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
  • blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
  • bluebonnet — a broad, flat cap of blue woolen cloth, formerly worn in Scotland
  • bluebottle — A bluebottle is a large fly with a shiny dark-blue body.
  • bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
  • bluefields — a city in SW West Virginia.
  • bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
  • bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
  • blues band — a band that plays the blues
  • blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
  • bluest eye — a novel (1970) by Toni Morrison.
  • bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
  • bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
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