10-letter words containing t, e, l, i
- betula oil — methyl salicylate.
- 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.
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- bimetallic — consisting of two metals
- binoxalate — an acid containing the group HC 2 O 4 –, as ammonium binoxalate, C 2 H 5 NO 4 ⋅H 2 O.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- biocellate — (of animals and plants) marked with two eyelike spots or ocelli
- bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
- biparental — from two parents
- biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- bipetalous — having two petals
- biquintile — the aspect of planets when they are at an angle of 144° to one another
- bird table — A bird table is a small wooden platform on a pole which some people put in their garden in order to put food for the birds on it.
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- birtwistle — Sir Harrison. born 1934, English composer, whose works include the operas Punch and Judy (1967), The Mask of Orpheus (1984), Gawain (1991), Exody (1998), and The Minotaur (2008)
- bissextile — (of a month or year) containing the extra day of a leap year
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- bitterling — a small brightly coloured European freshwater cyprinid fish, Rhodeus sericeus: a popular aquarium fish
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- black kite — a bird of prey, Milvus migrans, found in much of Eurasia
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- blind test — a test in which the participants cannot identify the products that they are testing
- blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
- blitheness — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blithering — talking foolishly; jabbering
- blithesome — cheery; merry
- blitzkrieg — A blitzkrieg is a fast and intense military attack that takes the enemy by surprise and is intended to achieve a very quick victory.
- blitzstein — Marc, 1905–64, U.S. composer.
- bloggerati — those considered to be important or influential in the world of blogging
- blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
- blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
- 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
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them