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10-letter words containing m, l

  • black gram — a leguminous plant, Phaseolus mungo, whose seeds are used as food in India
  • black mark — A black mark against someone is something bad that they have done or a bad quality that they have which affects the way people think about them.
  • black mass — a blasphemous travesty of the Christian Mass, performed by practitioners of black magic
  • black mold — any fungus of the family Mucoraceae, especially Rhizopus nigricans, that forms a black, furry coating on foodstuffs.
  • black monk — a Benedictine monk
  • black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
  • blackamoor — a Black African or other person with dark skin
  • blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
  • blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
  • blancmange — Blancmange is a cold dessert that is made from milk, sugar, cornflour or corn starch, and flavouring, and looks rather like jelly.
  • blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blasphemes — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blast lamp — a torch or lamp, as a blowtorch or a lamp for lampworking, in which the flame is fed by an air or oxygen blast.
  • blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
  • blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
  • blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
  • blimpishly — in a blimpish manner
  • blind-worm — a limbless European lizard, Anguis fragilis, related to the glass lizards.
  • blithesome — cheery; merry
  • block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
  • blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
  • blood meal — the dried blood of animals used as a fertilizer, diet supplement for livestock, or deer repellent.
  • bloomfield — Leonard. 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933)
  • bloomsburg — a city in E central Pennsylvania.
  • bloomsbury — a district of central London in the borough of Camden: contains the British Museum, part of the University of London, and many publishers' offices
  • blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
  • blue mould — any fungus of the genus Penicillium that forms a bluish mass on decaying food, leather, etc
  • bog myrtle — sweet gale.
  • böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
  • bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
  • bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  • bomb blast — the impact caused by a bomb
  • bomb lance — a harpoon fitted with an explosive head.
  • bookmobile — a vehicle providing lending library facilities
  • bottle imp — Cartesian diver.
  • bottomhole — The bottomhole is the lowest or deepest part of a well.
  • bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
  • bottomless — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
  • boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
  • bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • box column — a hollow wooden column, as for a porch, usually having a rectangular cross section.
  • brahmaloka — the highest part of Kamaloka, where refined souls exist in blissful contemplation of Brahma.
  • bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread
  • broomfield — a city in N central Colorado.
  • bubble gum — Bubble gum is a sweet substance similar to chewing gum. You can blow it out of your mouth so it makes the shape of a bubble.
  • bubble-gum — a type of chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles through the lips.
  • bull moose — a member of the Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912
  • bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
  • bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
  • bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
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