10-letter words containing l, o, e, r
- bardolater — someone who practises bardolatry
- bargepoles — Plural form of bargepole.
- barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
- barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
- battledore — an ancient racket game
- be all for — to be strongly in favour of
- beflowered — adorned or decorated with flowers.
- behavioral — Behavioral means relating to the behavior of a person or animal, or to the study of their behavior.
- bell tower — a tower containing a bell or bells; belfry
- bellflower — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 73,000
- bellperson — a bellhop.
- 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.
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- bertolucci — Bernardo (berˈnardo). born 1940, Italian film director: his films include The Spider's Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970), 1900 (1976), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and The Dreamers (2003)
- betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bifluoride — an acid salt of hydrofluoric acid containing the group HF 2 -, as ammonium bifluoride, NH 4 HF 2.
- billfolder — billfold.
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- biopolymer — a large molecule in a living organism
- bipolarize — to make bipolar
- bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
- bladderpod — any of several plants belonging to the genera Alyssoides and Lesquerella, of the mustard family, having inflated seed pods.
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
- blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
- bloggerati — those considered to be important or influential in the world of blogging
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- blow dryer — a handheld hair dryer
- blow-dried — dried using hairdryer
- blow-dryer — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance that dries hair by emitting a stream of warm air.
- blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
- blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
- blue heron — any of the American varieties of heron with bluish or bluish-gray plumage, as the great blue heron.
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
- blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
- bobsledder — a person who bobsleds
- bog myrtle — sweet gale.
- bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
- bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
- 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
- boldrewood — Rolf, real name Thomas Alexander Browne. 1826–1915, Australian writer, born in the UK, noted for his novels of the Australian outback, esp Robbery Under Arms (1882–3)
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.