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10-letter words containing i, b, e

  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
  • borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
  • boringness — the quality of being boring
  • boris bike — any bicycle rented out by London's public bicycle hire scheme
  • boswellize — to write an account of in the detailed manner of Boswell.
  • 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
  • bottle imp — Cartesian diver.
  • bottom ice — anchor ice.
  • bouillotte — a French card game similar to poker
  • bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
  • bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
  • bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
  • bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
  • bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
  • bow weight — the poundage required to draw a bow to the full length of the arrow
  • bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
  • bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
  • box girder — a girder that is hollow and square or rectangular in shape
  • box office — The box office in a theatre, cinema, or concert hall is the place where the tickets are sold.
  • box-office — of or relating to the box office or to the business and commercial aspects of the theater: a box-office window; box-office receipts; a box-office attraction.
  • braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
  • bracketing — a set of brackets
  • bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
  • 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
  • brain stem — the portion of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord and comprises the medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain, and parts of the hypothalamus, functioning in the control of reflexes and such essential internal mechanisms as respiration and heartbeat.
  • brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz
  • brain-dead — If someone is declared brain-dead, they have suffered brain death.
  • brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
  • brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
  • branchiate — having gills.
  • brandering — furring (def 4b).
  • brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
  • brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
  • brassiness — made of or covered with brass.
  • brattiness — the quality of being bratty
  • bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
  • breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
  • breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
  • breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
  • breastrail — the upper rail of any parapet on a ship
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