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10-letter words containing b, o, w, l

  • all-elbows — (jargon)   Said of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) mess-dos program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on BBS systems: unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident. One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt.
  • allowables — that may be allowed; legitimate; permissible: an allowable tax deduction.
  • babo's law — the law stating that the vapour pressure of a solution is reduced in proportion to the amount of solute added
  • back vowel — a vowel whose sound is produced in the back of the mouth or the throat
  • ballflower — a carved ornament in the form of a ball enclosed by the three petals of a circular flower
  • barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
  • batfowling — A method of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost so that the birds fly towards the light.
  • bath towel — A bath towel is a very large towel used for drying your body after you have had a bath.
  • bedfellows — Plural form of bedfellow.
  • beflowered — adorned or decorated with flowers.
  • bell tower — a tower containing a bell or bells; belfry
  • bellflower — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 73,000
  • belowdecks — below a ship's deck
  • blind-worm — a limbless European lizard, Anguis fragilis, related to the glass lizards.
  • blood flow — the flow of blood through blood vessels around the body
  • blood work — a blood test or blood tests collectively.
  • blow dryer — a handheld hair dryer
  • blow-dried — dried using hairdryer
  • blow-dryer — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance that dries hair by emitting a stream of warm air.
  • blowing up — a reprimand
  • 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
  • bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
  • boldrewood — Rolf, real name Thomas Alexander Browne. 1826–1915, Australian writer, born in the UK, noted for his novels of the Australian outback, esp Robbery Under Arms (1882–3)
  • borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
  • boswellize — to write an account of in the detailed manner of Boswell.
  • boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
  • bow-legged — outward curvature of the legs causing a separation of the knees when the ankles are close or in contact.
  • bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
  • bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
  • bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
  • bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
  • brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
  • brazilwood — a hard, reddish wood obtained from several tropical American trees (genera Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon) of the caesalpinia family: it yields a red or blue dye and is also used in making cabinets and violin bows
  • breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
  • brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
  • brown belt — a level of expertise just below that of black belt
  • brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
  • brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
  • brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
  • build down — a process for reducing armaments, especially the number of nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., by eliminating several older weapons for each new one that is deployed.
  • build-down — a gradual decrease in nuclear weapons, armed forces, etc., esp. by an agreement in which a smaller number of newer weapons would replace older ones
  • bulletwood — the wood of a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, widely used for construction due to its durability and toughness
  • climb down — If you climb down in an argument or dispute, you admit that you are wrong, or change your intentions or demands.
  • climb-down — a retreat, as from an indefensible opinion or position.
  • cobweblike — Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
  • cockwomble — (UK,slang,derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
  • colwyn bay — a town and resort in N Wales, in Conwy county borough. Pop: 30 269 (2001)
  • death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.

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