10-letter words containing t, a, b, l, e
- autojumble — a sale of second-hand car parts, esp for car enthusiasts
- automobile — An automobile is a car.
- b particle — B meson.
- babblative — having a tendency to babble; loquacious
- babblement — (obsolete) babble.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backtalker — One who backtalks.
- bacteriol. — bacteriological
- bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
- bagatelles — Plural form of bagatelle.
- balaustine — of or relating to the pomegranate.
- balbutient — stuttering, stammering
- balconette — a lightly padded bra that is designed to lift and enhance the appearance of a woman's bust
- ballantyne — R(obert) M(ichael). 1825–94, British author, noted for such adventure stories as The Coral Island (1857)
- ballbuster — Ball-breaker.
- ballistite — a smokeless rocket propellant composed of roughly equal proportions of the explosives nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine
- ballottine — a kind of galantine made of meat, poultry, or fish that is stuffed and rolled and usually served hot.
- balneation — the act of bathing
- 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
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- banalities — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- barbellate — (of plants or plant organs) covered with barbs, hooks, or bristles
- bardolater — someone who practises bardolatry
- bare metal — 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new computer. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot PROMs and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new computer a real development environment. 2. "Programming on the bare metal" is also used to describe a style of hand-hacking that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, especially tricks for speed and space optimisation that rely on crocks such as overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in The Story of Mel, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimise fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the relative costs of programming time and computer resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems, and in the code of hackers who just can't let go of that low-level control. See Real Programmer. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming is often considered a Good Thing, or at least a necessary evil (because these computers have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS interface and writing the application to directly access device registers and computer addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing well are held in high regard.
- barneveldt — ˈJan van Olden (ˌjɑnˈvɑn ɔldən ) ; yänˌvän ôlˈdən) 1547-1619; Du. statesman & patriot
- barnstable — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- barnstaple — a town in SW England, in Devon, on the estuary of the River Taw: tourism, agriculture. Pop: 30 765 (2001)
- basaltware — hard fine-grained black stoneware, made in Europe, esp in England, in the late 18th century
- base metal — A base metal is a metal such as copper, zinc, tin, or lead that is not a precious metal.
- baseplates — Plural form of baseplate.
- basilectal — (linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect.
- basketball — Basketball is a game in which two teams of five players each try to score goals by throwing a large ball through a circular net fixed to a metal ring at each end of the court.
- basketlike — resembling a basket
- bass flute — the lowest instrument in the flute family, pitched one octave below the concert flute
- batch file — a computer file with sequential commands to be executed when the file is read
- bath towel — A bath towel is a very large towel used for drying your body after you have had a bath.
- batteilant — fighting; combatant
- battle cry — A battle cry is a phrase that is used to encourage people to support a particular cause or campaign.
- battle-axe — If you call a middle-aged or older woman a battle-axe, you mean she is very difficult and unpleasant because of her fierce and determined attitude.
- battleaxes — Plural form of battleaxe.
- battledore — an ancient racket game
- battlement — a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures, originally for shooting through
- battleship — A battleship is a very large, heavily armed warship.
- battlesome — argumentative; quarrelsome.
- battlesuit — (science fiction) A technologically enhanced suit worn in battle for protection, camouflage, etc.
- bay antler — the second branch from the base of a deer's horn
- be able to — If you are able to do something, you have skills or qualities which make it possible for you to do it.
- bead plant — a creeping plant, Nertera granadensis, of New Zealand and South America, having leathery leaves and orange-colored, transparent berries.
- beam trawl — a trawl net whose lateral spread during trawling is maintained by a beam across its mouth.