10-letter words containing s, a, b, l
- black caps — any of several birds having the top of the head black, as the chickadee and certain warblers, especially the Old World blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.
- black disc — a conventional black vinyl gramophone record as opposed to a compact disc
- black iris — a painting (1926) by Georgia O'Keeffe.
- black list — a list of persons under suspicion, disfavor, censure, etc.: His record as an anarchist put him on the government's blacklist.
- black mass — a blasphemous travesty of the Christian Mass, performed by practitioners of black magic
- black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
- black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
- black sash — (formerly, in South Africa) an organization of women opposed to apartheid
- black shag — a large dark-coloured shag, Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandis, of Australasian waters
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- black spot — If you describe a place, time, or part of a situation as a black spot, you mean that it is particularly bad or likely to cause problems.
- black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- black swan — a phenomenon that occurs even though it had been thought to be impossible
- blacklands — an area of fertile soil in Texas
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
- 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
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- blade slap — the regular noise beat generated by the rotor blades of a helicopter
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemes — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blast away — If a gun, or a person firing a gun, blasts away, the gun is fired continuously for a period of time.
- blast cell — any undifferentiated or immature cell.
- blast lamp — a torch or lamp, as a blowtorch or a lamp for lampworking, in which the flame is fed by an air or oxygen blast.
- blast wave — a violent propagating disturbance, produced by an explosion in air, that consists of an abrupt rise in pressure followed by a drop in pressure to or below atmospheric pressure.
- blastocoel — the cavity within a blastula
- blastocyst — the blastula of mammals: a sphere of cells (trophoblast) enclosing an inner mass of cells and a fluid-filled cavity (blastocoel)
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- blastodisk — germinal disk
- 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
- blazonings — heraldic adornments
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
- blue flash — green flash.
- blue jeans — Blue jeans are the same as jeans.
- blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- blue state — a state of the U.S. that usually votes Democratic.
- bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
- bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.