10-letter words containing i, l, n
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- bollocking — a severe telling-off; dressing-down
- 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
- borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
- 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
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- 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
- 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
- bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
- brick-kiln — a kiln in which blocks of clay are baked into bricks
- brightline — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- brilliancy — an instance of brilliance: the brilliancies of Congreve's wit.
- brilliante — with spirit; lively
- brinelling — a localized surface corrosion; a cause of damage to bearings
- broccolini — a cultivated variety of cabbage, Brassica B. oleracea, which resembles broccoli and is eaten as a green vegetable
- bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
- broodingly — preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- 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.
- brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
- bubbliness — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- build down — a process for reducing armaments, especially the number of nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., by eliminating several older weapons for each new one that is deployed.
- build into — to make (something) a definite part of (a contract, agreement, etc)
- build-down — a gradual decrease in nuclear weapons, armed forces, etc., esp. by an agreement in which a smaller number of newer weapons would replace older ones
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- bulletined — a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public.
- bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
- bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
- bumblingly — in a bumbling manner
- bunglingly — in a bungling manner
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- bunny girl — a night-club hostess whose costume includes a rabbit-like tail and ears
- bunny hill — a nursery slope
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
- burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- bushelling — alteration of clothes