10-letter words containing i, l, b
- bluefields — a city in SW West Virginia.
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
- blurringly — in a manner which causes blurring
- blush wine — any of certain wines similar in style to dry white wine although slightly pink in color: made like rosé from red-wine grapes, and often named by the grape's name preceded by “white,” as white zinfandel
- boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
- body fluid — any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.
- boiled egg — an egg cooked in its shell in boiling water
- boiled oil — any of several oils, esp. linseed, that are heated (not boiled) and mixed with driers to form a thick, dark, quick-drying oil
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
- bois brule — métis (def 2).
- bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- bollocking — a severe telling-off; dressing-down
- 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
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bonneville — Lake, a prehistoric lake in Utah, E Nevada, and S Idaho: Great Salt Lake is its remnant. 350 miles (564 km) long.
- bonnilasse — a pretty girl
- bookmobile — a vehicle providing lending library facilities
- 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.
- boswellize — to write an account of in the detailed manner of Boswell.
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- 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.
- boucicault — Dion (ˈdaɪɒn), real name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. 1822–90, Irish dramatist and actor. His plays include London Assurance (1841), The Octoroon (1859), and The Shaughran (1874)
- bouillotte — a French card game similar to poker
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- 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.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- box social — a fund-raising event at which donated box meals are auctioned
- braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
- brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
- brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
- branglings — a series of squabbles or disputes
- bratislava — the capital of Slovakia since 1918, a port on the River Danube; capital of Hungary (1541–1784) and seat of the Hungarian parliament until 1848. Pop: 428 672 (2001)
- brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
- brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
- brazilwood — a hard, reddish wood obtained from several tropical American trees (genera Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon) of the caesalpinia family: it yields a red or blue dye and is also used in making cabinets and violin bows