10-letter words containing r, e, s, i, l
- bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
- 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
- belletrist — a writer of belles-lettres
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- 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
- bescribble — to cover with scribbles
- besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
- birtwistle — Sir Harrison. born 1934, English composer, whose works include the operas Punch and Judy (1967), The Mask of Orpheus (1984), Gawain (1991), Exody (1998), and The Minotaur (2008)
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
- blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
- blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
- blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
- 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
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
- breastrail — the upper rail of any parapet on a ship
- bridlewise — (of a horse) obedient to the pressure of the reins on the neck rather than to the bit
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- 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.
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
- calcsinter — travertine.
- calibrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calibrate.
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- cameralism — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- cameralist — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- caramelise — (cooking) To convert sugar into caramel.
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- carl lewis — Carl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
- carnelians — Plural form of carnelian.
- cartilages — Plural form of cartilage.
- cavillers' — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
- centralise — to draw to or gather about a center.
- centralism — Centralism is a way of governing a country, or organizing something such as industry, education, or politics, which involves having one central group of people who give instructions to everyone else.
- centralist — Centralist organizations govern a country or organize things using one central group of people who control and instruct everyone else.
- centrioles — Plural form of centriole.
- charles ii — known as Charles the Bald. 823–877 ad, Holy Roman Emperor (875–877) and, as Charles I, king of France (843–877)