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10-letter words containing r, a, b, e, l

  • ballbuster — Ball-breaker.
  • ballerinas — Plural form of ballerina.
  • ballflower — a carved ornament in the form of a ball enclosed by the three petals of a circular flower
  • ballplayer — A ballplayer is a baseball player.
  • balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
  • bamboozler — to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed by into): They bamboozled us into joining the club. Synonyms: gyp, dupe, trick, cheat, swindle, defraud, flimflam, hoax, gull, rook; delude, mislead, fool.
  • banderilla — a decorated barbed dart, thrust into the bull's neck or shoulder
  • banderoles — Plural form of banderole.
  • bandleader — A bandleader is the person who conducts a band, especially a jazz band.
  • bandoleers — Plural form of bandoleer.
  • bandoleros — Plural form of bandolero.
  • bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
  • bank clerk — an employee of a bank
  • bankrolled — money in one's possession; monetary resources.
  • bankroller — the person or organization that provides the finance for a project, business, etc
  • bar-le-duc — Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
  • barbellate — (of plants or plant organs) covered with barbs, hooks, or bristles
  • barcaroles — Plural form of barcarole.
  • barcarolle — a boating song of the Venetian gondoliers.
  • bardolater — someone who practises bardolatry
  • bare metal — 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new computer. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot PROMs and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new computer a real development environment. 2. "Programming on the bare metal" is also used to describe a style of hand-hacking that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, especially tricks for speed and space optimisation that rely on crocks such as overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in The Story of Mel, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimise fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the relative costs of programming time and computer resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems, and in the code of hackers who just can't let go of that low-level control. See Real Programmer. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming is often considered a Good Thing, or at least a necessary evil (because these computers have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS interface and writing the application to directly access device registers and computer addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing well are held in high regard.
  • barelegged — having uncovered legs
  • bargepoles — Plural form of bargepole.
  • barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
  • barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
  • barneveldt — ˈJan van Olden (ˌjɑnˈvɑn ɔldən ) ; yänˌvän ôlˈdən) 1547-1619; Du. statesman & patriot
  • barnstable — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • barnstaple — a town in SW England, in Devon, on the estuary of the River Taw: tourism, agriculture. Pop: 30 765 (2001)
  • barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
  • barrel ass — to charge headlong; move at high speed.
  • barrel-ass — to charge headlong; move at high speed.
  • barrelfish — a blackish stromateid fish, Hyperoglyphe perciformis, inhabiting New England coastal waters.
  • barrelfuls — Plural form of barrelful.
  • barrelhead — the round and flat end of a barrel
  • barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
  • bas-relief — Bas-relief is a technique of sculpture in which shapes are carved so that they stand out from the background.
  • basaltware — hard fine-grained black stoneware, made in Europe, esp in England, in the late 18th century
  • baseballer — a person who plays baseball
  • baseliners — Plural form of baseliner.
  • battle cry — A battle cry is a phrase that is used to encourage people to support a particular cause or campaign.
  • battledore — an ancient racket game
  • baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
  • bay antler — the second branch from the base of a deer's horn
  • bay laurel — a small evergreen Mediterranean laurel, Laurus nobilis, with glossy aromatic leaves, used for flavouring in cooking, and small blackish berries
  • be all for — to be strongly in favour of
  • beam trawl — a trawl net whose lateral spread during trawling is maintained by a beam across its mouth.
  • bedraggled — Someone or something that is bedraggled looks untidy because they have got wet or dirty.
  • beer glass — a glass of a standard size (in Britain holding one pint, or half a pint) with straight sides, or with a handle, to drink beer from
  • behavioral — Behavioral means relating to the behavior of a person or animal, or to the study of their behavior.
  • belisarius — ?505–565 ad, Byzantine general under Justinian I. He recovered North Africa from the Vandals and Italy from the Ostrogoths and led forces against the Persians
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