10-letter words containing w, e, l, b
- all-elbows — (jargon) Said of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) mess-dos program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on BBS systems: unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident. One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt.
- allowables — that may be allowed; legitimate; permissible: an allowable tax deduction.
- answerable — If you are answerable to someone, you have to report to them and explain your actions.
- back vowel — a vowel whose sound is produced in the back of the mouth or the throat
- ballflower — a carved ornament in the form of a ball enclosed by the three petals of a circular flower
- barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
- basaltware — hard fine-grained black stoneware, made in Europe, esp in England, in the late 18th century
- bath towel — A bath towel is a very large towel used for drying your body after you have had a bath.
- beam trawl — a trawl net whose lateral spread during trawling is maintained by a beam across its mouth.
- bedfellows — Plural form of bedfellow.
- beetleweed — galax.
- beflowered — adorned or decorated with flowers.
- bejewelled — A bejewelled person or object is wearing a lot of jewellery or is decorated with jewels.
- bell tower — a tower containing a bell or bells; belfry
- bellflower — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 73,000
- bellwether — If you describe something as a bellwether, you mean that it is an indication of the way a situation is changing.
- belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
- belowdecks — below a ship's deck
- beweltered — soaked with blood
- bewildered — If you are bewildered, you are very confused and cannot understand something or decide what you should do.
- bilge well — bilge (def 1c).
- bilge-well — Nautical. either of the rounded areas that form the transition between the bottom and the sides on the exterior of a hull. Also, bilges. (in a hull with a double bottom) an enclosed area between frames at each side of the floors, where seepage collects. Also called bilge well. a well into which seepage drains to be pumped away. Also called bilge water. seepage accumulated in bilges.
- 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)
- blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
- 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.
- blaze away — to fire a gun rapidly a number of times
- blow dryer — a handheld hair dryer
- blow-dried — dried using hairdryer
- blow-dryer — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance that dries hair by emitting a stream of warm air.
- 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-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.
- blush wine — any of certain wines similar in style to dry white wine although slightly pink in color: made like rosé from red-wine grapes, and often named by the grape's name preceded by “white,” as white zinfandel
- bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
- bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
- boldrewood — Rolf, real name Thomas Alexander Browne. 1826–1915, Australian writer, born in the UK, noted for his novels of the Australian outback, esp Robbery Under Arms (1882–3)
- borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
- boswellize — to write an account of in the detailed manner of Boswell.
- boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
- bow-legged — outward curvature of the legs causing a separation of the knees when the ankles are close or in contact.
- bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- bridlewise — (of a horse) obedient to the pressure of the reins on the neck rather than to the bit
- brown belt — a level of expertise just below that of black belt
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
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