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10-letter words containing b, o, e

  • bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • 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 cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
  • blue goose — a variety of the snow goose that has a bluish-grey body and white head and neck
  • blue heron — any of the American varieties of heron with bluish or bluish-gray plumage, as the great blue heron.
  • 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 phlox — a plant, Phlox divaricata, of eastern North America, having creeping, rooting stems and mauve flowers.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
  • 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
  • blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
  • board game — A board game is a game such as chess or backgammon, which people play by moving small objects around on a board.
  • board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
  • board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
  • boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
  • boat shoes — shoes for wearing on board boats, often laced moccasins
  • bobble hat — A bobble hat is a woollen hat with a bobble on it.
  • bobblehead — a collectable doll with a bobbing oversized head representing a celebrity or a cartoon character
  • bobbysoxer — an adolescent girl wearing bobbysocks, esp in the 1940s
  • bobsledder — a person who bobsleds
  • boccherini — Luigi (luˈidʒi). 1743–1805, Italian composer and cellist
  • bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
  • bodhi tree — the sacred peepul at Buddh Gaya under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha
  • body check — the fair block of an opponent who has the puck by bumping with the body, shoulder to hip, from the front or side
  • body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
  • body louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • body press — a hold in which a wrestler places full body weight on a supine opponent in trying to pin the opponent's shoulders to the mat.
  • bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
  • bodyworker — a person involved in the building or repair of bodywork
  • boehmenism — the mystical doctrines or conceptions of Jakob Böhme.
  • boehmenist — a supporter or adherent of Boehmenism.
  • bog myrtle — sweet gale.
  • bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
  • bogey hole — a natural pool used for swimming
  • bogey-hole — a swimming hole.
  • bogtrotter — a highly offensive term for an Irish person
  • bohemond i — ?1056–?1111, prince of Antioch (1099–1111); a leader of the first crusade, he helped to capture Antioch (1098)
  • böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
  • bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
  • boiled egg — an egg cooked in its shell in boiling water
  • boiled oil — any of several oils, esp. linseed, that are heated (not boiled) and mixed with driers to form a thick, dark, quick-drying oil
  • 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
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