10-letter words containing u, a, e
- belisarius — ?505–565 ad, Byzantine general under Justinian I. He recovered North Africa from the Vandals and Italy from the Ostrogoths and led forces against the Persians
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- benzofuran — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C8H6O
- bequeathal — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bequeathed — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bestraught — distraught; distracted
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- betula oil — methyl salicylate.
- biannulate — having two bands, esp of colour
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- big laurel — the rhododendron.
- big league — a major sports league
- big-league — Sports. of or belonging to a major league: a big-league pitcher.
- bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- bipetalous — having two petals
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- bladdernut — any temperate shrub or small tree of the genus Staphylea, esp S. pinnata of S Europe, that has bladder-like seed pods: family Staphyleaceae
- blanquette — a French stew made of meat, usually veal, and white sauce
- blue agave — a Mexican plant, Agave tequilana variant weber, with blue leaves, used in tequila.
- blue alert — (in military or civilian defense) an alert following the first, or yellow, alert, in which air attack seems probable.
- blue angel — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
- blue crane — the great blue heron.
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
- blue flash — green flash.
- 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 grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- blue jeans — Blue jeans are the same as jeans.
- blue plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
- blue racer — a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
- blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
- 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 wavey — See under wavey.
- blue whale — the largest mammal: a widely distributed bluish-grey whalebone whale, Sibbaldus (or Balaenoptera) musculus, closely related and similar to the rorquals: family Balaenopteridae
- blue-black — Something that is blue-black is bluish black in colour.
- blue-plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
- blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
- bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
- bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
- bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
- blues band — a band that plays the blues
- bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
- board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood