10-letter words containing i, r, l
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- biocontrol — the use of one living thing to control another
- biopolymer — a large molecule in a living organism
- biparental — from two parents
- biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
- bipolarity — having two poles, as the earth.
- bipolarize — to make bipolar
- bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
- 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.
- 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.
- birtwistle — Sir Harrison. born 1934, English composer, whose works include the operas Punch and Judy (1967), The Mask of Orpheus (1984), Gawain (1991), Exody (1998), and The Minotaur (2008)
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- bitterling — a small brightly coloured European freshwater cyprinid fish, Rhodeus sericeus: a popular aquarium fish
- blabbering — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- black iris — a painting (1926) by Georgia O'Keeffe.
- black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- 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
- blind door — a door having louvers permitting circulation of air.
- blind-worm — a limbless European lizard, Anguis fragilis, related to the glass lizards.
- blindstory — a windowless story
- blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
- blithering — talking foolishly; jabbering
- blitzkrieg — A blitzkrieg is a fast and intense military attack that takes the enemy by surprise and is intended to achieve a very quick victory.
- bloggerati — those considered to be important or influential in the world of blogging
- blow-dried — dried using hairdryer
- blubbering — Zoology. the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
- blue ridge — a mountain range extending SW from N Virginia to N Georgia: part of the Appalachian Mountains.
- blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
- blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
- blurringly — in a manner which causes blurring
- boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
- 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
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- 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.
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- 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.