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10-letter words containing l, i, u, e

  • blubbering — Zoology. the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
  • 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 devil — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
  • blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
  • blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
  • blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
  • blue ridge — a mountain range extending SW from N Virginia to N Georgia: part of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
  • blue shift — a shift toward shorter wavelengths of the spectral lines of a celestial object, caused by the motion of the object toward the observer.
  • blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
  • blue-devil — blue heaven.
  • blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
  • bluefields — a city in SW West Virginia.
  • blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
  • blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
  • blush wine — any of certain wines similar in style to dry white wine although slightly pink in color: made like rosé from red-wine grapes, and often named by the grape's name preceded by “white,” as white zinfandel
  • boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
  • bois brule — métis (def 2).
  • bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
  • bouillotte — a French card game similar to poker
  • bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
  • brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
  • brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
  • bubbliness — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
  • buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
  • bulletined — a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public.
  • bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
  • burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
  • burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
  • burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
  • burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
  • burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
  • burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
  • bushelling — alteration of clothes
  • butlership — the skills of a butler
  • buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
  • calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
  • calumniate — to slander
  • capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
  • capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
  • capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
  • capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
  • capsulizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsulize.
  • cardueline — of or relating to the passerine subfamily Carduelinae, including the goldfinches, siskins, canaries and crossbills.
  • casualties — Military. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined. casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.
  • cause list — a list of cases awaiting a hearing
  • celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
  • celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
  • cellulitis — inflammation of any of the tissues of the body, characterized by fever, pain, swelling, and redness of the affected area
  • cellulosic — of or made from cellulose
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