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10-letter words containing o, n, l, i

  • 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
  • bloodiness — the state of being bloody
  • bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
  • bloviation — a lengthy but insubstantial speech
  • blowing up — a reprimand
  • blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
  • bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
  • bollocking — a severe telling-off; dressing-down
  • bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
  • bonneville — Lake, a prehistoric lake in Utah, E Nevada, and S Idaho: Great Salt Lake is its remnant. 350 miles (564 km) long.
  • bonnilasse — a pretty girl
  • borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
  • boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
  • bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
  • bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
  • bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
  • bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
  • broccolini — a cultivated variety of cabbage, Brassica B. oleracea, which resembles broccoli and is eaten as a green vegetable
  • bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
  • broodingly — preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
  • brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
  • buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
  • build down — a process for reducing armaments, especially the number of nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., by eliminating several older weapons for each new one that is deployed.
  • build into — to make (something) a definite part of (a contract, agreement, etc)
  • build-down — a gradual decrease in nuclear weapons, armed forces, etc., esp. by an agreement in which a smaller number of newer weapons would replace older ones
  • bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
  • bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
  • bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
  • burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
  • butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
  • cajolingly — In a cajoling manner.
  • calamondin — a small citrus tree, Citrus mitis, of the Philippines
  • calcedonio — a type of Venetian opaque glassware, with veins of colour, intended to imitate chalcedony
  • calcinosis — the abnormal deposition of calcium salts in the tissues of the body
  • calcitonin — a hormone secreted by the thyroid that inhibits the release of calcium from the skeleton and prevents a build-up of calcium in the blood
  • caledonian — of or relating to Scotland
  • california — a state on the W coast of the US: the third largest state in area and the largest in population; consists of a narrow, warm coastal plain rising to the Coast Range, deserts in the south, the fertile central valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in the east; major industries include the growing of citrus fruits and grapes, fishing, oil production, electronics, information technology, and films. Capital: Sacramento. Pop: 35 484 453 (2003 est). Area: 411 015 sq km (158 693 sq miles)
  • caliginous — dark; dim
  • calliopean — resembling a calliope in sound; piercingly loud: a calliopean voice.
  • calmodulin — a protein found in most living cells; it regulates many enzymic processes that are dependent on calcium
  • calumnious — of or using calumny
  • cannabinol — a non-psychoactive cannabinoid, C21H26O
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