10-letter words containing i, l, h
- basophilic — having an affinity for basic stains.
- bat chayil — (in some congregations) a ceremony of confirmation for a girl of at least Bat Mitzvah age
- batch file — a computer file with sequential commands to be executed when the file is read
- batholiths — Plural form of batholith.
- battleship — A battleship is a very large, heavily armed warship.
- behavioral — Behavioral means relating to the behavior of a person or animal, or to the study of their behavior.
- bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
- bettelheim — Bruno, 1903–90, U.S. psychologist, educator, and writer, born in Austria.
- bi-monthly — occurring every two months.
- bible oath — an oath sworn with one's hand on the Christian Bible
- bibliotaph — a person who caches or hoards books.
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bilharzial — relating to bilharzia
- billethead — a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.
- bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
- bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
- birth pill — a pill which prevents a woman from conceiving
- birth plan — a statement by a mother telling doctors and midwives how she would like her labour to proceed
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- birthstool — a specially shaped seat formerly used in childbirth.
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bisulphide — a disulfide.
- bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
- bitch-slap — to strike (someone) with one's open hand
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blimpishly — in a blimpish manner
- blind hole — a hole whose green cannot be seen by the approaching golfer because of trees or other obstructions.
- blindsight — the ability to respond to visual stimuli without having any conscious visual experience; it can occur after some forms of brain damage
- blitheness — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blithering — talking foolishly; jabbering
- blithesome — cheery; merry
- blue shift — a shift toward shorter wavelengths of the spectral lines of a celestial object, caused by the motion of the object toward the observer.
- 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
- 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
- brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
- brightline — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
- brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
- bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- bunny hill — a nursery slope
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- bush basil — See under basil.
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.