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10-letter words containing n, o, l

  • bellinzona — a town in SE central Switzerland, capital of Ticino canton. Pop: 16 463 (2000)
  • bellperson — a bellhop.
  • belongings — Your belongings are the things that you own, especially things that are small enough to be carried.
  • ben lomond — a mountain in W central Scotland, on the E side of Loch Lomond. Height: 973 m (3192 ft)
  • benevolent — If you describe a person in authority as benevolent, you mean that they are kind and fair.
  • benzoylate — to introduce the benzoyl group into (an organic compound).
  • 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
  • bi-monthly — occurring every two months.
  • bibliogony — the art of producing and publishing books.
  • bidonville — a shanty town
  • bilocation — the existence of something in two places at the same time
  • binational — involving two nations
  • bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
  • binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
  • binoxalate — an acid containing the group HC 2 O 4 –, as ammonium binoxalate, C 2 H 5 NO 4 ⋅H 2 O.
  • biobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • biocontrol — the use of one living thing to control another
  • bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
  • biofouling — the degradation of an artificial surface by biological growth
  • bionically — utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body: The scientist used a bionic arm to examine the radioactive material.
  • bitonality — the quality of two musical keys being played simultaneously
  • black knot — a fungal disease of plums and cherries caused by Dibotryon morbosum, characterized by rough black knotlike swellings on the twigs and branches
  • black monk — a Benedictine monk
  • blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
  • blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
  • blanquillo — any of several game fishes of the genus Caulolatilus, related to the tilefishes.
  • blazonings — heraldic adornments
  • blind copy — a copy of a letter or the like, the original of which bears no evidence that the copy was sent to some other person.
  • blind door — a door having louvers permitting circulation of air.
  • blind hole — a hole whose green cannot be seen by the approaching golfer because of trees or other obstructions.
  • blind spot — If you say that someone has a blind spot about something, you mean that they seem to be unable to understand it or to see how important it is.
  • blind-spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
  • blind-worm — a limbless European lizard, Anguis fragilis, related to the glass lizards.
  • blindstory — a windowless story
  • block line — a rope or cable used in a block and tackle
  • blood bank — A blood bank is a place where blood which has been taken from blood donors is stored until it is needed for people in hospital.
  • blood knot — barrel knot.
  • bloodhound — A bloodhound is a large dog with a very good sense of smell. Bloodhounds are often used to find people or other animals by following their scent.
  • bloodiness — the state of being bloody
  • bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
  • bloodstone — a dark-green variety of chalcedony with red spots: used as a gemstone
  • bloviation — a lengthy but insubstantial speech
  • blowing up — a reprimand
  • bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • blue heron — any of the American varieties of heron with bluish or bluish-gray plumage, as the great blue heron.
  • blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
  • bluebonnet — a broad, flat cap of blue woolen cloth, formerly worn in Scotland
  • bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
  • bnr prolog — A constraint logic language.
  • bogon flux — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See quantum bogodynamics.
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