10-letter words containing s, u, l
- blue shift — a shift toward shorter wavelengths of the spectral lines of a celestial object, caused by the motion of the object toward the observer.
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- blue state — a state of the U.S. that usually votes Democratic.
- blue-curls — any of a genus (Trichostema) of plants of the mint family, with downy, narrow leaves and blue flowers
- blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
- bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
- bluefields — a city in SW West Virginia.
- 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
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- bluest eye — a novel (1970) by Toni Morrison.
- blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
- blush wine — any of certain wines similar in style to dry white wine although slightly pink in color: made like rosé from red-wine grapes, and often named by the grape's name preceded by “white,” as white zinfandel
- blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
- bois brule — métis (def 2).
- bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
- 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
- book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
- book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
- 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.
- brushwheel — a toothless wheel with bristles attached to its circumference, used to turn another wheel by friction
- bubbliness — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- bull moose — a member of the Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912
- 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
- bull's-eye — The bull's-eye is the small circular area at the centre of a target.
- bull-nosed — having a rounded end
- bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
- bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- bush basil — See under basil.
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- bushelling — alteration of clothes
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- bustlingly — in a bustling manner
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- butterless — without butter
- buttonless — having no button or buttons.
- 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.
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
- calcareous — of, containing, or resembling calcium carbonate; chalky
- calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.