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

  • borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
  • bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
  • braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
  • bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
  • brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
  • bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
  • bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread
  • bread roll — a small piece of bread dough made into a circular shape and baked
  • break bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • break-bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • breakables — objects that are delicate and could be easily broken
  • breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
  • breastrail — the upper rail of any parapet on a ship
  • breathable — A breathable fabric allows air to pass through it easily, so that clothing made from it does not become too warm or uncomfortable.
  • breathless — If you are breathless, you have difficulty in breathing properly, for example because you have been running or because you are afraid or excited.
  • bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
  • bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
  • bridezilla — a woman whose behaviour in planning the details of her wedding is regarded as intolerable
  • bridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • bridgetalk — (language)   A visual language.
  • bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
  • brilliance — great brightness; radiance
  • brilliante — with spirit; lively
  • brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
  • broad seal — the official seal of a nation and its government
  • broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
  • brocatelle — a heavy brocade with the design in deep relief, used chiefly in upholstery
  • brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
  • bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
  • bugger all — Bugger all is a rude way of saying 'nothing'.
  • bugger-all — absolutely nothing; nothing at all: Those reckless investments left him with bugger-all.
  • bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
  • 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
  • burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
  • burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
  • burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • butterball — a chubby or fat person
  • cablegrams — Plural form of cablegram.
  • cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
  • cadwalader — 7th century ad, legendary king of the Britons, probably a confusion of several historical figures
  • caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
  • cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
  • calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
  • calaverite — a metallic pale yellow mineral consisting of a telluride of gold in the form of elongated striated crystals. It is a source of gold in Australia and North America. Formula: AuTe2
  • calcareous — of, containing, or resembling calcium carbonate; chalky
  • calceiform — shaped like a shoe or slipper
  • calciferol — a fat-soluble steroid, found esp in fish-liver oils, produced by the action of ultraviolet radiation on ergosterol. It increases the absorption of calcium from the intestine and is used in the treatment of rickets. Formula: C28H43OH
  • calciminer — A person who calcimines.
  • calcitrate — (formal, ambitransitive) To kick.
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