10-letter words containing b, u, l, r
- irish bull — a paradoxical statement that appears at first to make sense. Example: He's the kind of guy who looks you right in the eye as he stabs you in the back.
- jerrybuild — To assemble a project in a hasty, low-quality manner, especially when cheap, low-quality and/or inappropriate materials are used.
- jerrybuilt — Of or pertaining to a shoddily built structure.
- jubbulpore — Jabalpur.
- jubilarian — a person who celebrates or has celebrated a jubilee, as a nun observing 25 or more years of religious life.
- jubilatory — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
- kalaburagi — a city in Karnataka state, in S central India.
- la bruyere — Jean de [zhahn duh] /ʒɑ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1645–96, French moralist and author.
- labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.
- labour law — those areas of law which appertain to the relationship between employers and employees and between employers and trade unions
- labourious — Lb nonstandard Alternative form of from=UK.
- laboursome — (obsolete) Hard-working.
- lambrequin — a woven fabric covering for a helmet in medieval times to protect it from heat, rust, etc.
- landlubber — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
- laurinburg — a town in S North Carolina.
- lauter tub — a tank for draining off and filtering the wort from grain mash.
- le bourget — a suburb of Paris: former airport, landing site for Charles A. Lindbergh, May 1927.
- lebensraum — additional territory considered by a nation, especially Nazi Germany, to be necessary for national survival or for the expansion of trade.
- leisurable — freedom from the demands of work or duty: She looked forward to retirement and a life of leisure.
- leisurably — in a leisurable manner
- lévy-bruhl — Lucien (lysjɛ̃). 1857–1939, French anthropologist and philosopher, noted for his study of the psychology of primitive peoples
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- limburgite — a glassy, dark-coloured volcanic rock containing olivine and augite but little or no feldspar
- litterbugs — Plural form of litterbug.
- louisbourg — a fortress in Canada, in Nova Scotia on SE Cape Breton Island: founded in 1713 by the French and strongly fortified (1720–40); captured by the British (1758) and demolished; reconstructed as a historic site
- lounge bar — more elegant bar
- lubricants — Plural form of lubricant.
- lubricated — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lubricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lubricate.
- lubricator — a person or thing that lubricates.
- lubricious — arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful; lecherous.
- lucubrator — One who lucubrates.
- ludibrious — (obsolete) sportive; wanton.
- lugubrious — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- luluabourg — former name of Kananga.
- lumberjack — a person who works at lumbering; logger.
- lumbermill — a mill for dressing logs and lumber.
- lumbersome — unwieldy; cumbrous
- lumberyard — a yard where lumber is stored for sale.
- lumbricoid — resembling an earthworm.
- lunchbreak — A period of rest from work for the purpose of eating lunch.
- luxembourg — a grand duchy surrounded by Germany, France, and Belgium. 999 sq. mi. (2585 sq. km).
- malmesbury — William of, William of Malmesbury.
- mandibular — pertaining to or of the nature of a mandible.
- measurable — capable of being measured.
- measurably — capable of being measured.
- melburnian — 2nd Viscount, William Lamb.
- mensurable — measurable.
- middelburg — a province in the SW Netherlands, consisting largely of islands. 1041 sq. mi. (2695 sq. km). Capital: Middelburg.
- morbillous — of, relating to, or resembling measles