10-letter words containing b, o, r, e, l
- furbelowed — Simple past tense and past participle of furbelow.
- gable roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- globe-trot — If someone spends their time globe-trotting, they spend a lot of time travelling to different parts of the world.
- goldbeater — a person who pounds gold into thin leaves for use in gilding
- goldberger — Joseph, 1874–1929, U.S. physician, born in Austria: discovered the cause of and treatment for pellagra.
- gorbellied — a protruding belly.
- governable — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- harborless — Alternative spelling of harbourless.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hellebores — Plural form of hellebore.
- helleborin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 28 H 36 O 6 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.
- heriotable — liable for the payment of a heriot
- heronsbill — any of a genus (Erodium) of plants of the geranium family, with fine leaves and yellow, white, or reddish flowers
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- honourable — (British spelling) Alternative form of honorable.
- hornblende — a dark-green to black mineral of the amphibole group, calcium magnesium iron and hydroxyl aluminosilicate.
- hornblower — One who, or that which, blows a horn.
- horse balm — a lemon-scented plant, Collinsonia canadensis, of eastern North America, having small yellow flowers.
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- implorable — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
- importable — to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.
- improbable — not probable; unlikely to be true or to happen: Rain is improbable tonight.
- improvable — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- in trouble — facing punishment
- inexorable — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
- inexorably — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
- informable — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
- inoperable — not operable or practicable.
- isoborneol — (organic compound) The exo-isomer of borneol.
- jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- jobholders — Plural form of jobholder.
- jubbulpore — Jabalpur.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- labiovelar — pronounced with simultaneous bilabial and velar articulations, as w.
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- laboursome — (obsolete) Hard-working.
- lag b'omer — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 18th day of Iyar, being the 33rd day of the Omer, traditionally in commemoration of the end of the plague that killed Rabbi Akiba's students or of the bravery of Bar Kokba.
- lay before — If you lay an idea or piece of information before someone, you present it to them in detail, usually in order to obtain their approval or advice.
- le bourget — a suburb of Paris: former airport, landing site for Charles A. Lindbergh, May 1927.
- lear board — (on a sloping roof) a board laid next to the gutter to receive the turned-up edge of the metal lining.
- lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc
- letter box — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
- letterbomb — (messaging) 1. An e-mail message containing live data intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's computer or terminal. It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must turn the terminal off to unwedge it. Under Unix, a letterbomb can also try to get part of its contents interpreted as a shell command. The results of this could range from silly to tragic. See also Trojan horse; compare nastygram, talk bomb. 2. Loosely, a mailbomb.
- liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- liberators — a four-engined heavy bomber widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. Symbol: B-24.
- liberatory — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- linerboard — a type of paperboard used especially for containers, as corrugated boxes.