10-letter words containing e, l, v
- avenuelike — Resembling or characteristic of an avenue.
- avgolemono — a Greek soup made with eggs, lemon juice, and rice
- aviculture — the keeping and rearing of birds
- avirulence — The state of being avirulent.
- avouchable — able to be avouched
- avunculate — the custom in some societies of assigning rights and duties to a maternal uncle concerning his sister's son
- babblative — having a tendency to babble; loquacious
- back vowel — a vowel whose sound is produced in the back of the mouth or the throat
- backvelder — a person who lives in a backveld
- ball valve — a one-way valve consisting of a metal ball with a cylindrical hole fitting into a concave seat over an opening
- barneveldt — ˈJan van Olden (ˌjɑnˈvɑn ɔldən ) ; yänˌvän ôlˈdən) 1547-1619; Du. statesman & patriot
- base level — the lowest level to which a land surface can be eroded by streams, which is, ultimately, sea level
- be in love — If you are in love with someone, you feel romantically or sexually attracted to them, and they are very important to you.
- bedeviling — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- bedevilled — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- beef olive — a thin slice of beef rolled round sausage meat
- behavioral — Behavioral means relating to the behavior of a person or animal, or to the study of their behavior.
- believable — Something that is believable makes you think that it could be true or real.
- bell curve — a curve resembling the outline of a flared bell, usually representing a normal distribution
- bell-curve — bell-shaped curve.
- belleville — a city in SW Illinois.
- belt drive — a transmission system using a flexible belt to transfer power
- beltsville — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- benevolent — If you describe a person in authority as benevolent, you mean that they are kind and fair.
- bevel gear — a gear having teeth cut into a conical surface known as the pitch zone. Two such gears mesh together to transmit power between two shafts at an angle to each other
- bidonville — a shanty town
- biliverdin — a dark green pigment in the bile formed by the oxidation of bilirubin. Formula: C33H34O6N4
- blainville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- blast wave — a violent propagating disturbance, produced by an explosion in air, that consists of an abrupt rise in pressure followed by a drop in pressure to or below atmospheric pressure.
- block vote — A block vote is a large number of votes that are all cast in the same way by one person on behalf of a group of people.
- blue agave — a Mexican plant, Agave tequilana variant weber, with blue leaves, used in tequila.
- blue devil — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue wavey — See under wavey.
- blue-devil — blue heaven.
- bolsheviks — a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party.
- bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bolshevist — a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.
- bolshevize — to bring into line with Communist ideology
- bonneville — Lake, a prehistoric lake in Utah, E Nevada, and S Idaho: Great Salt Lake is its remnant. 350 miles (564 km) long.
- book lover — a person who enjoys reading and reads more than the average person
- book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
- box clever — to behave in a careful and cunning way
- braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
- bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
- brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- calaverite — a metallic pale yellow mineral consisting of a telluride of gold in the form of elongated striated crystals. It is a source of gold in Australia and North America. Formula: AuTe2
- cantalever — any rigid structural member projecting from a vertical support, especially one in which the projection is great in relation to the depth, so that the upper part is in tension and the lower part in compression.
- cantilever — A cantilever is a long piece of metal or wood used in a structure such as a bridge. One end is fastened to something and the other end is used to support part of the structure.