10-letter words containing s, e, l, a
- bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
- blues band — a band that plays the blues
- bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
- bonnilasse — a pretty girl
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
- braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cablecasts — Plural form of cablecast.
- cablegrams — Plural form of cablegram.
- cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
- cacomistle — a catlike omnivorous mammal, Bassariscus astutus, of S North America, related to but smaller than the raccoons: family Procyonidae, order Carnivora (carnivores). It has yellowish-grey fur and a long bushy tail banded in black and white
- caecilians — Plural form of caecilian.
- calabashes — Plural form of calabash.
- calabooses — Plural form of calaboose.
- calamities — a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.
- calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
- calcareous — of, containing, or resembling calcium carbonate; chalky
- calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
- calcimines — Plural form of calcimine.
- calcsinter — travertine.
- calculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate.
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- calescence — an increasing heat
- calibrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calibrate.
- caliphates — Plural form of caliphate.
- call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
- call names — to speak of or to in an abusive manner
- callowness — immature or inexperienced: a callow youth.
- camel case — the convention of writing compound words or phrases with no spaces and an initial lowercase or uppercase letter, with each remaining word element beginning with an uppercase letter: iPod and WikiAnswers are both spelled in camel case.
- camel spin — camel (def 3).
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- cameltoe's — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
- 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.
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- cancelbots — Plural form of cancelbot.