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

  • airwaybill — An airbill.
  • all-elbows — (jargon)   Said of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) mess-dos program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on BBS systems: unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident. One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt.
  • allowables — that may be allowed; legitimate; permissible: an allowable tax deduction.
  • answerable — If you are answerable to someone, you have to report to them and explain your actions.
  • babo's law — the law stating that the vapour pressure of a solution is reduced in proportion to the amount of solute added
  • back vowel — a vowel whose sound is produced in the back of the mouth or the throat
  • backwardly — In a backward direction.
  • bahawalpur — an industrial city in Pakistan: cotton, soap. Pop: 563 000 (2005 est)
  • bailiwicks — Plural form of bailiwick.
  • balkan war — Also called First Balkan War. a war (1912–13) in which Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece opposed Turkey.
  • ballflower — a carved ornament in the form of a ball enclosed by the three petals of a circular flower
  • barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
  • basaltware — hard fine-grained black stoneware, made in Europe, esp in England, in the late 18th century
  • batfowling — A method of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost so that the birds fly towards the light.
  • bath towel — A bath towel is a very large towel used for drying your body after you have had a bath.
  • beam trawl — a trawl net whose lateral spread during trawling is maintained by a beam across its mouth.
  • belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
  • black hawk — 1767-1838; chief of the Sauk people: leader in the Black Hawk War against the U.S. (1832)
  • black swan — a phenomenon that occurs even though it had been thought to be impossible
  • blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
  • blank wall — an impassable barricade or obstacle; a situation in which further progress is impossible: Attempts to get information by questioning the neighbors ran into a blank wall.
  • blast away — If a gun, or a person firing a gun, blasts away, the gun is fired continuously for a period of time.
  • blast wave — a violent propagating disturbance, produced by an explosion in air, that consists of an abrupt rise in pressure followed by a drop in pressure to or below atmospheric pressure.
  • blaze away — to fire a gun rapidly a number of times
  • blue wavey — See under wavey.
  • blue whale — the largest mammal: a widely distributed bluish-grey whalebone whale, Sibbaldus (or Balaenoptera) musculus, closely related and similar to the rorquals: family Balaenopteridae
  • blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
  • bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
  • bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
  • borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
  • bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
  • bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
  • brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
  • brazilwood — a hard, reddish wood obtained from several tropical American trees (genera Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon) of the caesalpinia family: it yields a red or blue dye and is also used in making cabinets and violin bows
  • breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
  • brick wall — a wall made out of brick
  • bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
  • brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
  • brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
  • buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • camberwell — a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Southwark.
  • club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
  • colwyn bay — a town and resort in N Wales, in Conwy county borough. Pop: 30 269 (2001)
  • death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
  • deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
  • draw table — a table having one or more sliding leaves that may be drawn out as an extension.
  • float bowl — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
  • followable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
  • hawksbills — Plural form of hawksbill.

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