10-letter words containing t, e, l, b
- beanstalks — Plural form of beanstalk.
- beatifical — Beatific.
- beautifull — Obsolete spelling of beautiful.
- 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.
- bedclothes — Bedclothes are the sheets and covers which you put over yourself when you get into bed.
- bedlington — Also called Bedlingtonshire [bed-ling-tuh n-sheer, -sher] /ˈbɛd lɪŋ tənˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). an urban area in E Northumberland, in N England.
- bee beetle — a European beetle, Trichodes apiarius, that is often parasitic in beehives: family Cleridae
- beetlebung — sour gum.
- beetlehead — a person of low intelligence
- beetleweed — galax.
- bel esprit — a witty or clever person
- bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
- bell metal — an alloy of copper and tin, with some zinc and lead, used in casting bells
- bell tower — a tower containing a bell or bells; belfry
- belletrist — a writer of belles-lettres
- bellwether — If you describe something as a bellwether, you mean that it is an indication of the way a situation is changing.
- belly girt — girth (def 2).
- belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
- belly-bust — belly-flop.
- belt drive — a transmission system using a flexible belt to transfer power
- 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.
- beltsville — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- benevolent — If you describe a person in authority as benevolent, you mean that they are kind and fair.
- benzoylate — to introduce the benzoyl group into (an organic compound).
- bequeathal — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bertolucci — Bernardo (berˈnardo). born 1940, Italian film director: his films include The Spider's Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970), 1900 (1976), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and The Dreamers (2003)
- bes antler — bay antler.
- besottedly — in a besotted manner
- 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
- bestseller — A bestseller is a book of which a great number of copies has been sold.
- betel palm — a tropical Asian feather palm, Areca catechu, with scarlet or orange fruits
- betelgeuse — a very remote luminous red supergiant, Alpha Orionis: the second brightest star in the constellation Orion. It is a variable star
- betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- bettelheim — Bruno, 1903–90, U.S. psychologist, educator, and writer, born in Austria.
- betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
- betula oil — methyl salicylate.
- beweltered — soaked with blood
- bez antler — bay antler
- biannulate — having two bands, esp of colour
- bible belt — Parts of the southern United States are referred to as the Bible Belt because Protestants with strong beliefs have a lot of influence there.
- bible oath — an oath sworn with one's hand on the Christian Bible
- biblioteca — a library.
- bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
- biliterate — able to read and write in two languages.
- 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).
- billethead — a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.