10-letter words containing o, s, e, l
- battlesome — argumentative; quarrelsome.
- be oneself — to function physically and mentally as one normally does
- beaujolais — Beaujolais is a type of red wine that comes from the region of eastern France called Beaujolais.
- bedclothes — Bedclothes are the sheets and covers which you put over yourself when you get into bed.
- bedfellows — Plural form of bedfellow.
- bellperson — a bellhop.
- belongings — Your belongings are the things that you own, especially things that are small enough to be carried.
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- belowdecks — below a ship's deck
- 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
- besottedly — in a besotted manner
- betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- bio-diesel — Bio-diesel is diesel fuel made from biological or natural sources.
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
- 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
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blastocoel — the cavity within a blastula
- 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
- blithesome — cheery; merry
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- blood test — A blood test is a medical examination of a small amount of your blood.
- bloodiness — the state of being bloody
- bloodstone — a dark-green variety of chalcedony with red spots: used as a gemstone
- blottesque — (of a painting) crudely executed, often characterized by blots and smears
- blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
- blue goose — a variety of the snow goose that has a bluish-grey body and white head and neck
- blue lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- bobsledder — a person who bobsleds
- bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- 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
- bolsheviks — a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party.
- bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bolshevist — a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.
- bolshevize — to bring into line with Communist ideology
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bonnilasse — a pretty girl
- book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
- bookseller — A bookseller is a person who sells books.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms