10-letter words containing l, e, d
- borderless — without a band or margin around or along the edge
- borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
- bottlehead — bottlenose (def 2).
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bow-legged — outward curvature of the legs causing a separation of the knees when the ankles are close or in contact.
- 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.
- bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
- bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread
- bread roll — a small piece of bread dough made into a circular shape and baked
- brickfield — an area of ground where bricks are made
- bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
- bridezilla — a woman whose behaviour in planning the details of her wedding is regarded as intolerable
- bridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- bridlewise — (of a horse) obedient to the pressure of the reins on the neck rather than to the bit
- broad seal — the official seal of a nation and its government
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
- brookfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- broomfield — a city in N central Colorado.
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
- bubblehead — a frivolous person
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- bufflehead — a small North American diving duck, Bucephala (or Glaucionetta) albeola: the male has black-and-white plumage and a fluffy head
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- bull-nosed — having a rounded end
- bulldogged — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
- bulldogger — a person who brings an animal, esp a steer, to the ground by twisting its head from the horns
- bullethead — a head considered similar in shape to a bullet, as that of a person with a high, domelike forehead and cranium and short hair.
- bulletined — a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public.
- bulletwood — the wood of a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, widely used for construction due to its durability and toughness
- bullheaded — blindly stubborn; headstrong
- bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- cable bend — a knot or clinch for attaching a cable to an anchor or mooring post.
- cable-laid — (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.
- caddicefly — caddisfly.
- cadwalader — 7th century ad, legendary king of the Britons, probably a confusion of several historical figures
- calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
- calcedonio — a type of Venetian opaque glassware, with veins of colour, intended to imitate chalcedony
- calcimined — Simple past tense and past participle of calcimine.
- calculated — If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.