10-letter words containing s, a, l, b
- bakeapples — Plural form of bakeapple.
- balaclavas — Plural form of balaclava.
- balalaikas — Plural form of balalaika.
- balashikha — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe: a NE suburb of Moscow.
- balaustine — of or relating to the pomegranate.
- baldachins — Plural form of baldachin.
- balderdash — If you say that something that has been said or written is balderdash, you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
- balladeers — Plural form of balladeer.
- ballasting — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- ballbuster — Ball-breaker.
- ballerinas — Plural form of ballerina.
- ballistics — Ballistics is the study of the movement of objects that are shot or thrown through the air, such as bullets fired from a gun.
- ballistite — a smokeless rocket propellant composed of roughly equal proportions of the explosives nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine
- balloonist — A balloonist is a person who flies a hot-air balloon.
- ballpoints — Plural form of ballpoint.
- ballsiness — daring; courage
- balsam fir — a fir tree, Abies balsamea, of NE North America, that yields Canada balsam
- balsamical — Alternative form of balsamic.
- baltic sea — a sea in N Europe, connected with the North Sea by the Skagerrak, Kattegat, and Öresund; shallow, with low salinity and small tides
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- bamboozles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bamboozle.
- banalities — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- band shell — an outdoor platform for concerts, having a concave, nearly hemispherical back serving as a sounding board
- banderoles — Plural form of banderole.
- bandoleers — Plural form of bandoleer.
- bandoleros — Plural form of bandolero.
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- bangladesh — a republic in S Asia: formerly the Eastern Province of Pakistan; became independent in 1971 after civil war and the defeat of Pakistan by India; consists of the plains and vast deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers; prone to flooding: economy based on jute and jute products (over 70 per cent of world production); a member of the Commonwealth. Language: Bengali. Religion: Muslim. Currency: taka. Capital: Dhaka. Pop: 163 654 860 (2013 est). Area: 142 797 sq km (55 126 sq miles)
- barcaroles — Plural form of barcarole.
- bargepoles — Plural form of bargepole.
- 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)
- 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.
- bas-relief — Bas-relief is a technique of sculpture in which shapes are carved so that they stand out from the background.
- basal body — a cylindrical organelle, within the cytoplasm of flagellated and ciliated cells, that contains microtubules and forms the base of a flagellum or cilium: identical in internal structure to a centriole.
- basal cell — a cell of the basal, or deepest, layer of the epidermis
- basal disk — the flattened basal surface by which coelenterate polyps attach to the substrate.
- basaltware — hard fine-grained black stoneware, made in Europe, esp in England, in the late 18th century
- base level — the lowest level to which a land surface can be eroded by streams, which is, ultimately, sea level
- base metal — A base metal is a metal such as copper, zinc, tin, or lead that is not a precious metal.
- baseballer — a person who plays baseball
- basel-land — a demicanton in N Switzerland. 165 sq. mi. (425 sq. km). Capital: Liestal.
- baselessly — In a baseless way.
- baseliners — Plural form of baseliner.
- baseplates — Plural form of baseplate.
- basic salt — a salt formed by the partial neutralization of a base.
- basic slag — a furnace slag produced in steel-making, containing large amounts of calcium phosphate: used as a fertilizer