10-letter words containing e, l, d
- bladderpod — any of several plants belonging to the genera Alyssoides and Lesquerella, of the mustard family, having inflated seed pods.
- blade slap — the regular noise beat generated by the rotor blades of a helicopter
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- blind hole — a hole whose green cannot be seen by the approaching golfer because of trees or other obstructions.
- blind seed — a disease of ryegrass, characterized by shriveled, soft seeds, caused by a fungus, Phialea temulenta.
- blind side — the side of the field between the scrum and the nearer touchline
- blind test — a test in which the participants cannot identify the products that they are testing
- blind-side — the part of one's field of vision, as to the side and rear, where one is unable to see approaching objects.
- blindsided — Sports. to tackle, hit, or attack (an opponent) from the blind side: The quarterback was blindsided and had the ball knocked out of his hand.
- blood cell — any of the cells that circulate in the blood
- blood feud — A blood feud is a long-lasting, bitter disagreement between two or more groups of people, particularly family groups. Blood feuds often involve members of each group murdering or fighting with members of the other.
- blood heat — Blood heat is a temperature of 37°C, which is about the same as the normal temperature of the human body.
- blood meal — the dried blood of animals used as a fertilizer, diet supplement for livestock, or deer repellent.
- blood test — A blood test is a medical examination of a small amount of your blood.
- blood type — Someone's blood type is the same as their blood group.
- bloodiness — the state of being bloody
- bloodstone — a dark-green variety of chalcedony with red spots: used as a gemstone
- bloomfield — Leonard. 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933)
- 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.
- 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 daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- blue devil — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
- blue mould — any fungus of the genus Penicillium that forms a bluish mass on decaying food, leather, etc
- blue ridge — a mountain range extending SW from N Virginia to N Georgia: part of the Appalachian Mountains.
- blue-devil — blue heaven.
- bluefields — a city in SW West Virginia.
- blues band — a band that plays the blues
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
- bobblehead — a collectable doll with a bobbing oversized head representing a celebrity or a cartoon character
- bobsledder — a person who bobsleds
- 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
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- 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
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- 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)
- bondholder — A bondholder is a person who owns one or more investment bonds.
- boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
- bootlegged — made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.