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10-letter words containing e, l, p

  • bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
  • bespeckled — to speckle.
  • besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
  • betel palm — a tropical Asian feather palm, Areca catechu, with scarlet or orange fruits
  • betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
  • bibliopegy — the art of binding books
  • bibliopole — a dealer in books, esp rare or decorative ones
  • bilge pump — a pump for removing water from a bilge.
  • billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
  • biopolymer — a large molecule in a living organism
  • biparental — from two parents
  • biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
  • bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
  • bipedality — the quality of having two feet
  • bipetalous — having two petals
  • bipolarize — to make bipolar
  • birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
  • bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
  • bisulphide — a disulfide.
  • bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
  • bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
  • black pope — the head of the Jesuit order (so called from the power he once possessed and from the black habit worn by the order).
  • blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
  • 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
  • blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
  • blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blasphemes — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
  • blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
  • blood type — Someone's blood type is the same as their blood group.
  • blue peter — a signal flag of blue with a white square at the centre, displayed by a vessel about to leave port
  • blue phlox — a plant, Phlox divaricata, of eastern North America, having creeping, rooting stems and mauve flowers.
  • blue plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
  • blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
  • blue poppy — a papaveraceous plant, Meconopsis betonicifolia, grown for its showy sky-blue flowers
  • blue-plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
  • bottle cap — a device for closing or sealing a bottle, especially a metal cover with a cork gasket fitting tightly over the mouth of a glass or plastic bottle, held in place by crimping the edge of the cap over the lip or flange of the bottle.
  • bottle imp — Cartesian diver.
  • bottle-top — a cap on the top of a bottle
  • box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
  • breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
  • bubble-top — a bulletproof, transparent dome, as over the rear section of an automobile
  • bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
  • butlership — the skills of a butler
  • butt plate — a plate made usually of metal and attached to the butt end of a gunstock
  • cablephoto — a photographic image transmitted via cable, especially for use by newspapers or in police work.
  • caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
  • calciphile — calcicole.
  • calciphobe — calcifuge.
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