10-letter words containing b, l, u
- 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.
- bush basil — See under basil.
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- bushelling — alteration of clothes
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- bustlingly — in a bustling manner
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- butt plate — a plate made usually of metal and attached to the butt end of a gunstock
- butterball — a chubby or fat person
- butterless — without butter
- 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.
- buttonball — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
- buttonhold — to buttonhole a person
- buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
- buttonless — having no button or buttons.
- buttonmold — a small disk of wood, metal, etc., which is covered as with cloth or leather to form a button
- butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
- buy-to-let — of or relating to the practice of buying a property to let to tenants rather than to live in onself
- buzz along — a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- calculable — Calculable amounts or consequences can be calculated.
- calico bug — harlequin bug.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
- catacumbal — of or resembling catacombs
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- censurable — deserving censure, condemnation, or blame
- cerebellum — The cerebellum is a part of the brain in humans and other mammals that controls the body's movements and balance.
- cherubical — Cherubic.
- cherublike — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- chess club — a club in which participants can learn chess and improve their playing skills
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- chubb lock — a type of lock with a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
- circulable — able to be circulated
- clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
- cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)
- cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
- club chair — a large, heavily upholstered armchair, usually with a low back
- club class — a class of air travel which is less luxurious than first class but more luxurious than economy class
- club grass — cattail.
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.