10-letter words containing e, l, i, c
- bacillemia — the presence of bacilli in the blood.
- backfilled — Simple past tense and past participle of backfill.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
- bacteriol. — bacteriological
- balanchine — George. 1904–83, US choreographer, born in Russia
- bale cubic — the space available in a ship's hold for the stowage of general cargo, measured in cubic feet.
- balenciaga — Cristobal (krisˈtoβal). 1895–1972, Spanish couturier
- baltic sea — a sea in N Europe, connected with the North Sea by the Skagerrak, Kattegat, and Öresund; shallow, with low salinity and small tides
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- basilectal — (linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect.
- batch file — a computer file with sequential commands to be executed when the file is read
- be in luck — You can say someone is in luck when they are in a situation where they can have what they want or need.
- beatifical — Beatific.
- beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
- becomingly — that suits or gives a pleasing effect or attractive appearance, as to a person or thing: a becoming dress; a becoming hairdo.
- beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- bertolucci — Bernardo (berˈnardo). born 1940, Italian film director: his films include The Spider's Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970), 1900 (1976), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and The Dreamers (2003)
- bescribble — to cover with scribbles
- biblioteca — a library.
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- bimetallic — consisting of two metals
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- biocellate — (of animals and plants) marked with two eyelike spots or ocelli
- bioecology — the science that deals with the interrelations of communities of animals and plants with their environment
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- black bile — one of the four bodily humours; melancholy
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- blanc fixe — barium sulfate
- block line — a rope or cable used in a block and tackle
- 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.
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- botticelli — Sandro (ˈsandro), original name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi. 1444–1510, Italian (Florentine) painter, illustrator, and engraver, noted for the graceful outlines and delicate details of his mythological and religious paintings
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
- brickfield — an area of ground where bricks are made
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch