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10-letter words containing s, u, b, a, l

  • 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
  • boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
  • bonus ball — (in the National Lottery draw) a ball randomly selected after the first six balls, containing a number which influences the amount of prize money paid
  • boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
  • 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 shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
  • bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
  • bush basil — See under basil.
  • 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.
  • carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
  • censurable — deserving censure, condemnation, or blame
  • choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
  • clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
  • cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
  • club class — a class of air travel which is less luxurious than first class but more luxurious than economy class
  • club grass — cattail.
  • club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
  • clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
  • confusable — Able or liable to be confused with something else.
  • confusably — In a confusable way; such that they may be confused.
  • consumable — Consumable goods are items which are intended to be bought, used, and then replaced.
  • crab louse — a parasitic louse, Pthirus (or Phthirus) pubis, that infests the pubic region in humans
  • curveballs — Plural form of curveball.
  • customable — subject to customs
  • damsel bug — any of various bugs of the carnivorous family Nabiidae, related to the bedbugs but feeding on other insects. The larvae of some species mimic and associate with ants
  • disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
  • disputably — In a disputable manner.
  • elagabalus — (born Varius Avitus Bassianus) a.d. 205?-222; Rom. emperor (218-222)
  • fabulistic — Being or resembling a fable.
  • fabulosity — (uncountable) Fabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
  • fabulously — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
  • flash burn — a burn produced by brief exposure to intense, radiant heat, as from an explosion.
  • flash tube — a gaseous discharge tube designed to emit extremely short bursts of very intense light
  • flashbulbs — Plural form of flashbulb.
  • flushboard — Alternative form of flashboard.
  • frabjously — In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.
  • full blast — a sudden and violent gust of wind: Wintry blasts chilled us to the marrow.
  • incurables — Plural form of incurable.
  • insuitable — Obsolete form of unsuitable.
  • insultable — capable of being insulted
  • jebel musa — a mountain in NW Morocco, opposite Gibraltar: one of the Pillars of Hercules. 2775 feet (846 meters).
  • labourious — Lb nonstandard Alternative form of from=UK.
  • laboursome — (obsolete) Hard-working.
  • lebensraum — additional territory considered by a nation, especially Nazi Germany, to be necessary for national survival or for the expansion of trade.
  • leisurable — freedom from the demands of work or duty: She looked forward to retirement and a life of leisure.
  • leisurably — in a leisurable manner
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