10-letter words containing b, o, w, l
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- disembowel — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
- drop elbow — an elbow having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- elbow room — Elbow room is the freedom to do what you want to do or need to do in a particular situation.
- elbow-rest — something designed for resting one's elbow on
- fiddle bow — a bow with which the strings of the violin or a similar instrument are set in vibration.
- fingerbowl — a small bowl filled with water for rinsing the fingers at the table after a meal
- float bowl — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- flower box — a box used for growing decorative plants in or around the home, often attached to a window ledge.
- flower bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- flower bug — any of several bugs of the family Anthocoridae that live on flowers and are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- flowerbeds — Plural form of flowerbed.
- followable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- free-blown — (of glass) blown and shaped manually and without the use of a mold. Compare blown-molded, offhand (def 5).
- fruit bowl — dish for displaying fruit
- full-blown — fully or completely developed: full-blown AIDS; an idea expanded into a full-blown novel.
- furbelowed — Simple past tense and past participle of furbelow.
- hornblower — One who, or that which, blows a horn.
- hurlbarrow — a wheelbarrow
- labour law — those areas of law which appertain to the relationship between employers and employees and between employers and trade unions
- lay sb low — If a disease or illness lays you low, it makes you weak or ill.
- lewis bolt — an anchor bolt having a conical base around which concrete or lead is poured to hold it.
- longbowman — an archer who uses a longbow.
- low-budget — made or done on a small or reduced budget; costing relatively little money: a low-budget film.
- lowballing — the practice of offering a customer a deceptively low price
- lower back — lumbar region
- lower limb — a limb that is lower or hindmost; a leg
- marblewood — any of several trees having wood somewhat resembling marble in graining or texture, as Diospyros marmorata, of southern Asia, or Olea paniculata, of Australia.
- middlebrow — a person of conventional tastes and interests in matters of culture; a moderately cultivated person.
- mindblower — a hallucinogenic drug.
- mobile web — wireless Internet access from a smartphone or other mobile device (usually preceded by the ; often used attributively): to create apps for the mobile Web; the mobile Web version of our website.
- new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
- noblewoman — a woman of noble birth or rank.
- noblewomen — A woman who belongs to the noble class.
- oxbow lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
- oxbow-lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
- peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
- punch bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- punch-bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- rubblework — masonry built of rubble or roughly dressed stones.
- salad bowl — a large bowl in which a salad, especially a tossed salad, is served.
- scrub fowl — megapode.
- seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
- snow-blind — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
- snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
- snowblower — a motor-driven machine on wheels used to remove snow by throwing it into the air and to one side.
- snowmobile — Also called skimobile, snowcat. a motor vehicle with a revolving tread in the rear and steerable skis in the front, for traveling over snow.