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10-letter words containing l, a, b, r

  • barbirolli — Sir John. 1899–1970, English conductor of the Hallé Orchestra (1943–68)
  • barcaroles — Plural form of barcarole.
  • barcarolle — a boating song of the Venetian gondoliers.
  • bardolater — someone who practises bardolatry
  • bardolator — (usually, pejorative) One who loves or worships the works of William Shakespeare.
  • bardolatry — idolatry or excessive admiration of William Shakespeare
  • bare metal — 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new computer. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot PROMs and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new computer a real development environment. 2. "Programming on the bare metal" is also used to describe a style of hand-hacking that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, especially tricks for speed and space optimisation that rely on crocks such as overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in The Story of Mel, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimise fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the relative costs of programming time and computer resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems, and in the code of hackers who just can't let go of that low-level control. See Real Programmer. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming is often considered a Good Thing, or at least a necessary evil (because these computers have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS interface and writing the application to directly access device registers and computer addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing well are held in high regard.
  • barelegged — having uncovered legs
  • bargepoles — Plural form of bargepole.
  • bark cloth — a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia
  • barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
  • barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
  • barneveldt — ˈJan van Olden (ˌjɑnˈvɑn ɔldən ) ; yänˌvän ôlˈdən) 1547-1619; Du. statesman & patriot
  • barnstable — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • barnstaple — a town in SW England, in Devon, on the estuary of the River Taw: tourism, agriculture. Pop: 30 765 (2001)
  • baroclinic — of, relating to, or having the property of baroclinity.
  • barophilic — (of living organisms) growing best in conditions of high atmospheric pressure
  • barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
  • barrel ass — to charge headlong; move at high speed.
  • barrel-ass — to charge headlong; move at high speed.
  • barrelfish — a blackish stromateid fish, Hyperoglyphe perciformis, inhabiting New England coastal waters.
  • barrelfuls — Plural form of barrelful.
  • barrelhead — the round and flat end of a barrel
  • barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
  • bartolozzi — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1725?–1815? Italian engraver.
  • bas-relief — Bas-relief is a technique of sculpture in which shapes are carved so that they stand out from the background.
  • basaltware — hard fine-grained black stoneware, made in Europe, esp in England, in the late 18th century
  • baseballer — a person who plays baseball
  • baseliners — Plural form of baseliner.
  • battle cry — A battle cry is a phrase that is used to encourage people to support a particular cause or campaign.
  • battledore — an ancient racket game
  • baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
  • bay antler — the second branch from the base of a deer's horn
  • bay laurel — a small evergreen Mediterranean laurel, Laurus nobilis, with glossy aromatic leaves, used for flavouring in cooking, and small blackish berries
  • bay poplar — the tupelo, Nyssa aquatica.
  • be all for — to be strongly in favour of
  • beam trawl — a trawl net whose lateral spread during trawling is maintained by a beam across its mouth.
  • bedraggled — Someone or something that is bedraggled looks untidy because they have got wet or dirty.
  • beer glass — a glass of a standard size (in Britain holding one pint, or half a pint) with straight sides, or with a handle, to drink beer from
  • behavioral — Behavioral means relating to the behavior of a person or animal, or to the study of their behavior.
  • belisarius — ?505–565 ad, Byzantine general under Justinian I. He recovered North Africa from the Vandals and Italy from the Ostrogoths and led forces against the Persians
  • bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
  • bellarmine — Saint Robert. 1542–1621, Italian Jesuit theologian and cardinal; an important influence during the Counter-Reformation
  • bellhanger — a person who mounts bells
  • bellyboard — a small surfboard, usually 3–4 feet (0.9–1.2 meters) long, for riding waves on one's belly, sometimes used in conjunction with swim fins.
  • belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
  • belshazzar — 6th century bc, the son of Nabonidus, coregent of Babylon with his father for eight years: referred to as king and son of Nebuchadnezzar in the Old Testament (Daniel 5:1, 17; 8:1); described as having received a divine message of doom written on a wall at a banquet (Belshazzar's Feast)
  • berkeleian — denoting or relating to the philosophy of George Berkeley
  • bes antler — bay antler.
  • bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
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