10-letter words containing s, e, l, c
- ascaridole — a liquid, C 10 H 16 O 2 , constituting the active principle of chenopodium oil, used chiefly as a catalyst in polymerization reactions.
- ascendable — having the ability to be ascended
- ascendible — Capable of being ascended; climbable.
- ascii file — a file that uses the ASCII code
- ascribable — to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
- aspectable — having the ability to be seen
- aspherical — (of a reflecting surface or lens) deviating slightly from a perfectly spherical shape and relatively free from aberrations.
- associable — that can be associated or connected in the mind
- auscultate — to examine (a patient) by means of auscultation
- autoclaves — Plural form of autoclave.
- avalanches — Plural form of avalanche.
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- backlashed — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backlasher — something or someone who produces a backlash
- backlashes — Plural form of backlash.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backpedals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backpedal.
- backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
- 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
- barcaroles — Plural form of barcarole.
- basal cell — a cell of the basal, or deepest, layer of the epidermis
- basilectal — (linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect.
- beachballs — Plural form of beachball.
- becquerels — Plural form of becquerel.
- bedclothes — Bedclothes are the sheets and covers which you put over yourself when you get into bed.
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- belowdecks — below a ship's deck
- beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- 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
- bespeckled — to speckle.
- bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
- black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
- 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 stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- 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
- blast cell — any undifferentiated or immature cell.
- blastocoel — the cavity within a blastula
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
- blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
- blue-curls — any of a genus (Trichostema) of plants of the mint family, with downy, narrow leaves and blue flowers
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- breechless — having no breeches or trousers; bare-bottomed
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area