10-letter words containing i, l, e, a
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- biocellate — (of animals and plants) marked with two eyelike spots or ocelli
- bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- biparental — from two parents
- biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bipolarize — to make bipolar
- bird table — A bird table is a small wooden platform on a pole which some people put in their garden in order to put food for the birds on it.
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- blabbering — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- black bile — one of the four bodily humours; melancholy
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- blainville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- blanc fixe — barium sulfate
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- bloggerati — those considered to be important or influential in the world of blogging
- 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 giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- bonnilasse — a pretty girl
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- 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.
- brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
- bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
- breastrail — the upper rail of any parapet on a ship
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
- bridezilla — a woman whose behaviour in planning the details of her wedding is regarded as intolerable
- bridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- brilliante — with spirit; lively
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch