10-letter words containing li
- baby linen — sheets, clothes, etc for babies
- baby sling — a pouch supported by straps at the shoulder or neck, used to carry small babies on one's chest
- baby split — a split in which the two and seven pins or the three and ten pins remain standing.
- back light — light falling on a photographic or television subject from the rear
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
- baculiform — shaped like a rod
- bafflingly — to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.
- bailieship — the office or district of a bailie
- bailiwicks — Plural form of bailiwick.
- bajillions — Plural form of bajillion.
- bake blind — to bake (the empty crust of a pie, pastry, etc) by half filling with dried peas, crusts of bread, etc, to keep it in shape
- balibuntal — closely woven fine straw, used for making hats in the Philippines
- balikbayan — (Philippines) A Filipino returning to the Philippines after spending time in another country. (from 20th c.).
- balikpapan — a city in Indonesia, on the SE coast of Borneo. Pop: 409 023 (2000)
- ballistics — Ballistics is the study of the movement of objects that are shot or thrown through the air, such as bullets fired from a gun.
- ballistite — a smokeless rocket propellant composed of roughly equal proportions of the explosives nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine
- banalities — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- bandinelli — Baccio [baht-chaw] /ˈbɑt tʃɔ/ (Show IPA), or Bartolommeo [bahr-taw-lawm-me-aw] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔmˈmɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1493–1560, Italian sculptor.
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- barbirolli — Sir John. 1899–1970, English conductor of the Hallé Orchestra (1943–68)
- baroclinic — of, relating to, or having the property of baroclinity.
- barophilic — (of living organisms) growing best in conditions of high atmospheric pressure
- barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- bas-relief — Bas-relief is a technique of sculpture in which shapes are carved so that they stand out from the background.
- baseliners — Plural form of baseliner.
- basilicata — a region of S Italy, between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Gulf of Taranto. Capital: Potenza. Pop: 596 821 (2003 est). Area: 9985 sq km (3855 sq miles)
- basketlike — resembling a basket
- basophilia — an abnormal increase of basophil leucocytes in the blood
- basophilic — having an affinity for basic stains.
- batfowling — A method of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost so that the birds fly towards the light.
- batholiths — Plural form of batholith.
- battalions — Plural form of battalion.
- battallion — Archaic form of battalion.
- bazillions — Plural form of bazillion.
- bedazzling — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- bedeviling — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- bedlington — Also called Bedlingtonshire [bed-ling-tuh n-sheer, -sher] /ˈbɛd lɪŋ tənˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). an urban area in E Northumberland, in N England.
- beef olive — a thin slice of beef rolled round sausage meat
- befuddling — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
- beliefless — having no faith or belief
- believable — Something that is believable makes you think that it could be true or real.
- 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
- bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
- bellinzona — a town in SE central Switzerland, capital of Ticino canton. Pop: 16 463 (2000)
- belly-like — resembling a belly
- bestialism — the state of beasts
- bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.