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10-letter words containing o, u, l, e

  • bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • blue blood — If you say that someone has blue blood, you mean that they are from a family that has a high social rank.
  • 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 goose — a variety of the snow goose that has a bluish-grey body and white head and neck
  • blue heron — any of the American varieties of heron with bluish or bluish-gray plumage, as the great blue heron.
  • 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.
  • blue mould — any fungus of the genus Penicillium that forms a bluish mass on decaying food, leather, etc
  • blue phlox — a plant, Phlox divaricata, of eastern North America, having creeping, rooting stems and mauve flowers.
  • blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
  • blue poppy — a papaveraceous plant, Meconopsis betonicifolia, grown for its showy sky-blue flowers
  • bluebonnet — a broad, flat cap of blue woolen cloth, formerly worn in Scotland
  • bluebottle — A bluebottle is a large fly with a shiny dark-blue body.
  • 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
  • bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
  • 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
  • body louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
  • böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
  • 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
  • book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
  • book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
  • bottle out — If you bottle out, you lose your courage at the last moment and do not do something you intended to do.
  • bouillotte — a French card game similar to poker
  • bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
  • boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
  • bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
  • bubble-top — a bulletproof, transparent dome, as over the rear section of an automobile
  • bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
  • bulbaceous — bulbous
  • bull moose — a member of the Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912
  • bull-nosed — having a rounded end
  • bulldogged — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
  • bulldogger — a person who brings an animal, esp a steer, to the ground by twisting its head from the horns
  • bulletwood — the wood of a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, widely used for construction due to its durability and toughness
  • bullroarer — a wooden slat attached to a thong that makes a roaring sound when the thong is whirled: used esp by native Australians in religious rites
  • bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
  • bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
  • bunglesome — characterized by bungling
  • bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
  • bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
  • buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
  • buttonless — having no button or buttons.
  • buy-to-let — of or relating to the practice of buying a property to let to tenants rather than to live in onself
  • cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
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