10-letter words containing t, e, a, s, l
- athleisure — the wearing of sports clothes as leisurewear
- attestable — Able to be attested.
- auscultate — to examine (a patient) by means of auscultation
- austerlitz — a town in the Czech Republic, in Moravia: site of Napoleon's victory over the Russian and Austrian armies in 1805. Pop: 1795 (2007 est)
- australite — a glassy object made of molten rock found in the earth of Southern Australia
- authorless — having no author; anonymous
- autoclaves — Plural form of autoclave.
- autolysate — the substances resulting as the end product of autolysis
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- bagatelles — Plural form of bagatelle.
- balaustine — of or relating to the pomegranate.
- ballbuster — Ball-breaker.
- ballistite — a smokeless rocket propellant composed of roughly equal proportions of the explosives nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine
- 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.
- 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
- battleaxes — Plural form of battleaxe.
- 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.
- beanstalks — Plural form of beanstalk.
- beautifuls — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- beautyless — Devoid of beauty.
- bes antler — bay antler.
- bestialism — the state of beasts
- bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
- bestialize — to make bestial or brutal
- bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
- betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- bill gates — (person) William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. He was a computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes, February 3, 1976).
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- 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.
- 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
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blast cell — any undifferentiated or immature cell.
- blast wave — a violent propagating disturbance, produced by an explosion in air, that consists of an abrupt rise in pressure followed by a drop in pressure to or below atmospheric pressure.
- blastocoel — the cavity within a blastula