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10-letter words containing b, l, u

  • blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
  • blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
  • blurringly — in a manner which causes blurring
  • 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
  • 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
  • boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
  • body fluid — any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.
  • body louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
  • bogon flux — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See quantum bogodynamics.
  • böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
  • 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
  • bonus ball — (in the National Lottery draw) a ball randomly selected after the first six balls, containing a number which influences the amount of prize money paid
  • book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
  • book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
  • book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
  • bottle out — If you bottle out, you lose your courage at the last moment and do not do something you intended to do.
  • boucicault — Dion (ˈdaɪɒn), real name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. 1822–90, Irish dramatist and actor. His plays include London Assurance (1841), The Octoroon (1859), and The Shaughran (1874)
  • bouillotte — a French card game similar to poker
  • boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
  • 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.
  • bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
  • bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
  • box column — a hollow wooden column, as for a porch, usually having a rectangular cross section.
  • box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
  • brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
  • 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.
  • brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
  • 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.
  • brushwheel — a toothless wheel with bristles attached to its circumference, used to turn another wheel by friction
  • bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
  • bubble gum — Bubble gum is a sweet substance similar to chewing gum. You can blow it out of your mouth so it makes the shape of a bubble.
  • bubble tea — a cold drink, originally from Taiwan, of tea infused with fruit flavouring, shaken to produce bubbles, and served over tapioca pearls in a clear cup. It is usually drunk through a very wide straw
  • bubble-gum — a type of chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles through the lips.
  • bubble-top — a bulletproof, transparent dome, as over the rear section of an automobile
  • bubblehead — a frivolous person
  • bubbliness — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
  • bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
  • bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
  • buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
  • buddhology — the study of Buddha and of Buddhahood.
  • buff wheel — a wheel for buffing, consisting of a number of leather or canvas disks.
  • buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
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