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10-letter words containing al

  • ballplayer — A ballplayer is a baseball player.
  • ballpoints — Plural form of ballpoint.
  • ballsiness — daring; courage
  • ballyhooed — a clamorous and vigorous attempt to win customers or advance any cause; blatant advertising or publicity.
  • ballymoney — a district in N Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim. Pop: 27 809 (2003 est). Area: 417 sq km (161 sq miles)
  • balneation — the act of bathing
  • balneology — the branch of medical science concerned with the therapeutic value of baths, esp those taken with natural mineral waters
  • balopticon — a type of stereopticon for projecting images of objects by reflected light.
  • balsam fir — a fir tree, Abies balsamea, of NE North America, that yields Canada balsam
  • balsamical — Alternative form of balsamic.
  • baltic sea — a sea in N Europe, connected with the North Sea by the Skagerrak, Kattegat, and Öresund; shallow, with low salinity and small tides
  • balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
  • banalities — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
  • bananaland — Queensland.
  • bare metal — 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new computer. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot PROMs and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new computer a real development environment. 2. "Programming on the bare metal" is also used to describe a style of hand-hacking that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, especially tricks for speed and space optimisation that rely on crocks such as overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in The Story of Mel, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimise fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the relative costs of programming time and computer resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems, and in the code of hackers who just can't let go of that low-level control. See Real Programmer. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming is often considered a Good Thing, or at least a necessary evil (because these computers have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS interface and writing the application to directly access device registers and computer addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing well are held in high regard.
  • barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
  • basal body — a cylindrical organelle, within the cytoplasm of flagellated and ciliated cells, that contains microtubules and forms the base of a flagellum or cilium: identical in internal structure to a centriole.
  • basal cell — a cell of the basal, or deepest, layer of the epidermis
  • basal disk — the flattened basal surface by which coelenterate polyps attach to the substrate.
  • basaltware — hard fine-grained black stoneware, made in Europe, esp in England, in the late 18th century
  • base metal — A base metal is a metal such as copper, zinc, tin, or lead that is not a precious metal.
  • baseballer — a person who plays baseball
  • basic salt — a salt formed by the partial neutralization of a base.
  • basilectal — (linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect.
  • basketball — Basketball is a game in which two teams of five players each try to score goals by throwing a large ball through a circular net fixed to a metal ring at each end of the court.
  • bath salts — You dissolve bath salts in bath water to make the water smell pleasant and as a water softener.
  • battalions — Plural form of battalion.
  • battallion — Archaic form of battalion.
  • batticaloa — a seaport in E Sri Lanka.
  • be all for — to be strongly in favour of
  • beach ball — A beach ball is a large, light ball filled with air, which people play with, especially on the beach.
  • beachballs — Plural form of beachball.
  • beanstalks — Plural form of beanstalk.
  • beatifical — Beatific.
  • beau ideal — perfect beauty or excellence
  • beau-ideal — a conception of perfect beauty.
  • behavioral — Behavioral means relating to the behavior of a person or animal, or to the study of their behavior.
  • bell metal — an alloy of copper and tin, with some zinc and lead, used in casting bells
  • bemedalled — wearing or adorned with many medals: a bemedaled general; wearing a bemedaled military blouse.
  • beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
  • bequeathal — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
  • bestialism — the state of beasts
  • bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
  • bestialize — to make bestial or brutal
  • betel palm — a tropical Asian feather palm, Areca catechu, with scarlet or orange fruits
  • betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
  • bi-lingual — able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
  • biannually — occurring twice a year; semiannual.
  • biblically — of or in the Bible: a Biblical name.
  • bicorporal — having two bodies, main divisions, symbols, etc.
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