10-letter words starting with b
- behindhand — If someone is behindhand, they have been delayed or have made less progress in their work than they or other people think they should.
- bejewelled — A bejewelled person or object is wearing a lot of jewellery or is decorated with jewels.
- bel esprit — a witty or clever person
- bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
- 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
- bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
- bell curve — a curve resembling the outline of a flared bell, usually representing a normal distribution
- bell glass — a bell-shaped glass jar or cover for protecting delicate instruments, bric-a-brac, or the like, or for containing gases or a vacuum in chemical experiments.
- bell metal — an alloy of copper and tin, with some zinc and lead, used in casting bells
- bell punch — a machine that issues or stamps a ticket, etc, ringing a bell as it does so
- bell sheep — a sheep that a shearer is just starting to shear (and which he is allowed to finish) as the bell rings for the end of a work period
- bell tower — a tower containing a bell or bells; belfry
- bell-curve — bell-shaped curve.
- bellabella — a member of a branch of the Kwakiutl Indians inhabiting central coastal British Columbia.
- bellacoola — a member of a riverine tribe of North American Indians inhabiting an area near the central coast of British Columbia.
- belladonna — either of two alkaloid drugs, atropine or hyoscyamine, obtained from the leaves and roots of the deadly nightshade
- bellarmine — Saint Robert. 1542–1621, Italian Jesuit theologian and cardinal; an important influence during the Counter-Reformation
- belle isle — an island in the Atlantic, at the N entrance to the Strait of Belle Isle, between Labrador and Newfoundland. Area: about 39 sq km (15 sq miles)
- belletrist — a writer of belles-lettres
- belleville — a city in SW Illinois.
- bellflower — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 73,000
- bellhanger — a person who mounts bells
- 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)
- bellperson — a bellhop.
- bellwether — If you describe something as a bellwether, you mean that it is an indication of the way a situation is changing.
- belly flop — a dive into water in which the body lands horizontally
- belly girt — girth (def 2).
- belly pack — fanny pack.
- belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
- belly-bust — belly-flop.
- belly-flop — to do a belly flop, as in diving or sledding.
- belly-land — (of an aviator) to land (an aircraft) directly on the fuselage, as because of defective landing gear.
- belly-like — resembling a belly
- belly-slam — belly-flop.
- belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- bellyboard — a small surfboard, usually 3–4 feet (0.9–1.2 meters) long, for riding waves on one's belly, sometimes used in conjunction with swim fins.
- belongings — Your belongings are the things that you own, especially things that are small enough to be carried.
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- belowdecks — below a ship's deck
- belshazzar — 6th century bc, the son of Nabonidus, coregent of Babylon with his father for eight years: referred to as king and son of Nebuchadnezzar in the Old Testament (Daniel 5:1, 17; 8:1); described as having received a divine message of doom written on a wall at a banquet (Belshazzar's Feast)
- belt drive — a transmission system using a flexible belt to transfer power
- beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- beltsville — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- bemedalled — wearing or adorned with many medals: a bemedaled general; wearing a bemedaled military blouse.
- bemusement — Bemusement is the feeling that you have when you are puzzled or confused by something.
- ben lomond — a mountain in W central Scotland, on the E side of Loch Lomond. Height: 973 m (3192 ft)