10-letter words containing le
- besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
- bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
- bestseller — A bestseller is a book of which a great number of copies has been sold.
- bez antler — bay antler
- 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
- bibliopole — a dealer in books, esp rare or decorative ones
- bidonville — a shanty town
- bierkeller — a public house decorated in German style, selling German beers
- big league — a major sports league
- big-league — Sports. of or belonging to a major league: a big-league pitcher.
- 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.
- billethead — a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.
- bimble box — type of dense Australian tree
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- biofuelled — running on biofuel
- 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.
- 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
- black bile — one of the four bodily humours; melancholy
- black hole — Black holes are areas in space, where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. Black holes are thought to be formed by collapsed stars.
- black lead — to colour or rub with black lead
- blainville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blind hole — a hole whose green cannot be seen by the approaching golfer because of trees or other obstructions.
- blue alert — (in military or civilian defense) an alert following the first, or yellow, alert, in which air attack seems probable.
- 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
- bluebottle — A bluebottle is a large fly with a shiny dark-blue body.
- board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
- bobble hat — A bobble hat is a woollen hat with a bobble on it.
- bobblehead — a collectable doll with a bobbing oversized head representing a celebrity or a cartoon character
- bobsledder — a person who bobsleds
- bog myrtle — sweet gale.
- bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
- bogey hole — a natural pool used for swimming
- bogey-hole — a swimming hole.
- boiled egg — an egg cooked in its shell in boiling water
- boiled oil — any of several oils, esp. linseed, that are heated (not boiled) and mixed with driers to form a thick, dark, quick-drying oil
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
- bois brule — métis (def 2).
- bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
- bonneville — Lake, a prehistoric lake in Utah, E Nevada, and S Idaho: Great Salt Lake is its remnant. 350 miles (564 km) long.
- bookmobile — a vehicle providing lending library facilities
- bookseller — A bookseller is a person who sells books.
- boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
- bootlegged — made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
- bootlegger — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- borderless — without a band or margin around or along the edge
- borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.