10-letter words containing e, y, l
- becomingly — that suits or gives a pleasing effect or attractive appearance, as to a person or thing: a becoming dress; a becoming hairdo.
- beer belly — If a man has a beer belly, he has a fat stomach because of drinking too much beer.
- belly flop — a dive into water in which the body lands horizontally
- belly girt — girth (def 2).
- belly pack — fanny pack.
- belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
- belly-bust — belly-flop.
- belly-flop — to do a belly flop, as in diving or sledding.
- belly-land — (of an aviator) to land (an aircraft) directly on the fuselage, as because of defective landing gear.
- belly-like — resembling a belly
- belly-slam — belly-flop.
- belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- bellyboard — a small surfboard, usually 3–4 feet (0.9–1.2 meters) long, for riding waves on one's belly, sometimes used in conjunction with swim fins.
- benzoylate — to introduce the benzoyl group into (an organic compound).
- beryl blue — a light greenish blue.
- berzerkley — Berzerkeley
- besottedly — in a besotted manner
- bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
- 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
- biennially — happening every two years: biennial games.
- bioecology — the science that deals with the interrelations of communities of animals and plants with their environment
- biopolymer — a large molecule in a living organism
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
- blaze away — to fire a gun rapidly a number of times
- blood type — Someone's blood type is the same as their blood group.
- blow dryer — a handheld hair dryer
- blow-dryer — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance that dries hair by emitting a stream of warm air.
- 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 poppy — a papaveraceous plant, Meconopsis betonicifolia, grown for its showy sky-blue flowers
- blue wavey — See under wavey.
- bluest eye — a novel (1970) by Toni Morrison.
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- bog myrtle — sweet gale.
- bogey hole — a natural pool used for swimming
- bogey-hole — a swimming hole.
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- bull's-eye — The bull's-eye is the small circular area at the centre of a target.
- bully beef — tinned corned beef
- bully tree — any of several tropical American trees of the sapodilla family that yield balata
- buy-to-let — of or relating to the practice of buying a property to let to tenants rather than to live in onself
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- by oneself — be oneself, to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition. to be unaffected and sincere: One makes more friends by being oneself than by putting on airs.
- by the lee — so that the wind is blowing on the wrong side of the sail
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.