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10-letter words containing s, l, r

  • 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.
  • basaltware — hard fine-grained black stoneware, made in Europe, esp in England, in the late 18th century
  • baseballer — a person who plays baseball
  • baseliners — Plural form of baseliner.
  • becquerels — Plural form of becquerel.
  • beer glass — a glass of a standard size (in Britain holding one pint, or half a pint) with straight sides, or with a handle, to drink beer from
  • bel esprit — a witty or clever person
  • 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
  • bellperson — a bellhop.
  • belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
  • belshazzar — 6th century bc, the son of Nabonidus, coregent of Babylon with his father for eight years: referred to as king and son of Nebuchadnezzar in the Old Testament (Daniel 5:1, 17; 8:1); described as having received a divine message of doom written on a wall at a banquet (Belshazzar's Feast)
  • 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
  • bes antler — bay antler.
  • bescribble — to cover with scribbles
  • besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
  • bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
  • bestseller — A bestseller is a book of which a great number of copies has been sold.
  • betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
  • bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
  • billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
  • bimestrial — lasting for two months
  • binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
  • bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
  • birthstool — a specially shaped seat formerly used in childbirth.
  • 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)
  • black iris — a painting (1926) by Georgia O'Keeffe.
  • 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
  • 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
  • blackstrap — a kind of port wine
  • 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).
  • blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
  • 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
  • blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
  • blindstory — a windowless story
  • blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
  • blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
  • bloomsburg — a city in E central Pennsylvania.
  • bloomsbury — a district of central London in the borough of Camden: contains the British Museum, part of the University of London, and many publishers' offices
  • blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
  • blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
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