10-letter words containing k, l, e, b
- black bile — one of the four bodily humours; melancholy
- black code — any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black heat — heat emitted by an electric element made from low-resistance thick wire that does not glow red
- black hole — Black holes are areas in space, where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. Black holes are thought to be formed by collapsed stars.
- black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
- black lead — to colour or rub with black lead
- black pope — the head of the Jesuit order (so called from the power he once possessed and from the black habit worn by the order).
- black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
- blackbeard — nickname of (Edward) Teach
- blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
- blackfella — an Aborigine or Black person
- blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
- blackheath — a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen
- blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
- blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
- blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
- 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.
- block line — a rope or cable used in a block and tackle
- block vote — A block vote is a large number of votes that are all cast in the same way by one person on behalf of a group of people.
- blockflote — a recorder.
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
- blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
- blue-black — Something that is blue-black is bluish black in colour.
- bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- 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.
- bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
- book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
- book lover — a person who enjoys reading and reads more than the average person
- book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
- bookmobile — a vehicle providing lending library facilities
- bookseller — A bookseller is a person who sells books.
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
- boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
- break bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
- break-bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
- breakables — objects that are delicate and could be easily broken
- brickfield — an area of ground where bricks are made
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.