10-letter words containing l, a, y, e
- belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
- belly-land — (of an aviator) to land (an aircraft) directly on the fuselage, as because of defective landing gear.
- belly-slam — belly-flop.
- belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- 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.
- benzoylate — to introduce the benzoyl group into (an organic compound).
- bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
- betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
- biennially — happening every two years: biennial games.
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
- blaze away — to fire a gun rapidly a number of times
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- blue wavey — See under wavey.
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.
- caddicefly — caddisfly.
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- call money — money loaned by banks and recallable on demand
- calyculate — having a calycule
- cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
- cardplayer — a person who plays cards
- carelessly — If someone does something carelessly, they do it without much thought or effort.
- carpellary — (botany) Of or pertaining to carpels.
- castellany — the office or position of a castellan
- cavalierly — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- cavalrymen — a soldier in the cavalry.
- celibately — In a celibate way.
- centrality — the state or condition of being central
- cephalalgy — Dated form of cephalalgia.
- cerebrally — Anatomy, Zoology. of or relating to the cerebrum or the brain.
- certaynely — Archaic spelling of certainly.
- ceylon tea — a tea from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
- chalcedony — a microcrystalline often greyish form of quartz with crystals arranged in parallel fibres: a gemstone. Formula: SiO2
- chalybeate — containing or impregnated with iron salts
- chandlerly — like, or pertaining to, a chandler
- changeably — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
- cheapishly — in a fairly cheap manner
- chemically — a substance produced by or used in a chemical process.
- chlamydate — (of some molluscs) possessing a mantle
- chlamydiae — the sexually transmitted diseases that are due to the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis
- chocolatey — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- chrysocale — a copper alloy containing zinc and lead.
- chylaceous — of or resembling chyle.