10-letter words containing e, m, b, l
- ben lomond — a mountain in W central Scotland, on the E side of Loch Lomond. Height: 973 m (3192 ft)
- bestialism — the state of beasts
- betel palm — a tropical Asian feather palm, Areca catechu, with scarlet or orange fruits
- bettelheim — Bruno, 1903–90, U.S. psychologist, educator, and writer, born in Austria.
- 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.
- bilge pump — a pump for removing water from a bilge.
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
- bimble box — type of dense Australian tree
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- bimetallic — consisting of two metals
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- biopolymer — a large molecule in a living organism
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blancmange — Blancmange is a cold dessert that is made from milk, sugar, cornflour or corn starch, and flavouring, and looks rather like jelly.
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemes — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blithesome — cheery; merry
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- blood meal — the dried blood of animals used as a fertilizer, diet supplement for livestock, or deer repellent.
- bloomfield — Leonard. 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933)
- blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- blue mould — any fungus of the genus Penicillium that forms a bluish mass on decaying food, leather, etc
- bog myrtle — sweet gale.
- böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
- bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
- bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bomb lance — a harpoon fitted with an explosive head.
- bookmobile — a vehicle providing lending library facilities
- bottle imp — Cartesian diver.
- bottomhole — The bottomhole is the lowest or deepest part of a well.
- bottomless — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
- bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread
- broomfield — a city in N central Colorado.
- bubble gum — Bubble gum is a sweet substance similar to chewing gum. You can blow it out of your mouth so it makes the shape of a bubble.
- bubble-gum — a type of chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles through the lips.
- bull moose — a member of the Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912
- bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
- burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
- cablegrams — Plural form of cablegram.