10-letter words containing l, h
- bellhanger — a person who mounts bells
- bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
- bellwether — If you describe something as a bellwether, you mean that it is an indication of the way a situation is changing.
- belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- 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)
- bequeathal — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- bettelheim — Bruno, 1903–90, U.S. psychologist, educator, and writer, born in Austria.
- bi-monthly — occurring every two months.
- bible oath — an oath sworn with one's hand on the Christian Bible
- bibliotaph — a person who caches or hoards books.
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bilharzial — relating to bilharzia
- billethead — a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.
- bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
- bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
- birth pill — a pill which prevents a woman from conceiving
- birth plan — a statement by a mother telling doctors and midwives how she would like her labour to proceed
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- birthstool — a specially shaped seat formerly used in childbirth.
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bisulphide — a disulfide.
- bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
- bitch-slap — to strike (someone) with one's open hand
- black hand — a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century
- black hawk — 1767-1838; chief of the Sauk people: leader in the Black Hawk War against the U.S. (1832)
- 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 sash — (formerly, in South Africa) an organization of women opposed to apartheid
- black shag — a large dark-coloured shag, Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandis, of Australasian waters
- 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
- blackpatch — a disease of red and white clover, caused by an unidentified fungus and characterized by brown or blackish lesions on the plant.
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemes — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blimpishly — in a blimpish manner
- blind hole — a hole whose green cannot be seen by the approaching golfer because of trees or other obstructions.
- blindsight — the ability to respond to visual stimuli without having any conscious visual experience; it can occur after some forms of brain damage
- blitheness — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blithering — talking foolishly; jabbering
- blithesome — cheery; merry
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- blood bath — a killing of many people; massacre