10-letter words containing u, l, e
- bully tree — any of several tropical American trees of the sapodilla family that yield balata
- bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
- bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
- burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- bushelling — alteration of clothes
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- butt plate — a plate made usually of metal and attached to the butt end of a gunstock
- butterball — a chubby or fat person
- butterless — without butter
- buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
- buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
- buttonless — having no button or buttons.
- buy-to-let — of or relating to the practice of buying a property to let to tenants rather than to live in onself
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
- calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
- calcareous — of, containing, or resembling calcium carbonate; chalky
- calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
- calculable — Calculable amounts or consequences can be calculated.
- calculated — If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
- calculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate.
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
- calumniate — to slander
- calyculate — having a calycule
- camouflage — Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
- camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
- cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
- cancellous — having a porous or spongelike structure
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
- cannelured — a groove or fluting around the cylindrical part of a bullet.
- cannelures — Plural form of cannelure.
- cannulated — Simple past tense and past participle of cannulate.
- cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
- capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.