10-letter words containing b, e, v
- benevolent — If you describe a person in authority as benevolent, you mean that they are kind and fair.
- beta waves — a pattern of high-frequency brain waves (beta waves) observed in normal persons upon sensory stimulation, especially with light, or when they are engaging in purposeful mental activity.
- bevel gear — a gear having teeth cut into a conical surface known as the pitch zone. Two such gears mesh together to transmit power between two shafts at an angle to each other
- bidonville — a shanty town
- biliverdin — a dark green pigment in the bile formed by the oxidation of bilirubin. Formula: C33H34O6N4
- biodiverse — containing a wide variety of plant and animal species
- bioreserve — an area preserving wildlife, landforms, and waterways while providing appropriate public use and enjoyment of a natural environment.
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- blainville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- 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.
- block vote — A block vote is a large number of votes that are all cast in the same way by one person on behalf of a group of people.
- blue agave — a Mexican plant, Agave tequilana variant weber, with blue leaves, used in tequila.
- blue devil — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue wavey — See under wavey.
- blue-devil — blue heaven.
- bolsheviks — a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party.
- bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bolshevist — a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.
- bolshevize — to bring into line with Communist ideology
- bon voyage — You say 'bon voyage' to someone who is going on a journey, as a way of saying goodbye and wishing them good luck.
- boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
- bonneville — Lake, a prehistoric lake in Utah, E Nevada, and S Idaho: Great Salt Lake is its remnant. 350 miles (564 km) long.
- book cover — the cover of a book
- book lover — a person who enjoys reading and reads more than the average person
- book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
- bookviewer — A hypertext documentation system from Oracle based on Oracle Toolkit. It allows the user to create private links and bookmarks, and to make multimedia annotations.
- bovver boy — a rowdy youth
- box clever — to behave in a careful and cunning way
- braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
- brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz
- break even — to attain a level of activity, as in commerce, or a point of operation, as in gambling, at which there is neither profit nor loss
- break-even — having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
- bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
- bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
- brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- bromsgrove — a town in W central England, in N Worcestershire. Pop: 29 237 (2001)
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- buck fever — nervous excitement felt by inexperienced hunters at the approach of game
- bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- cabo verde — a republic in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa, consisting of a group of ten islands and five islets: an overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, when the islands became independent. Official language: Portuguese. Religion: Christian (Roman Catholic) majority; animist minority. Currency: Cape Verdean escudo. Capital: Praia. Pop: 531 046 (2013 est). Area: 4033 sq km (1557 sq miles)
- cohibitive — restrictive
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- convenable — proper or correct in behaviour or conduct
- conveyable — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
- courbevoie — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 85 716 (2006)
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- cultivable — (of land) capable of being cultivated
- curve ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curve-ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.