10-letter words containing l, i, s, t, e
- assimilate — When people such as immigrants assimilate into a community or when that community assimilates them, they become an accepted part of it.
- assimulate — (obsolete) To assimilate.
- assoilment — the state or act of forgiveness or deliverance from transgression or denunciation
- asteroidal — relating to asteroids
- at leisure — having free time for ease, relaxation, etc
- ateleiosis — the condition of having restricted or impaired growth
- athleisure — the wearing of sports clothes as leisurewear
- austerlitz — a town in the Czech Republic, in Moravia: site of Napoleon's victory over the Russian and Austrian armies in 1805. Pop: 1795 (2007 est)
- australite — a glassy object made of molten rock found in the earth of Southern Australia
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- balaustine — of or relating to the pomegranate.
- ballistite — a smokeless rocket propellant composed of roughly equal proportions of the explosives nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine
- 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
- banalities — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- basilectal — (linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect.
- basketlike — resembling a basket
- battleship — A battleship is a very large, heavily armed warship.
- battlesuit — (science fiction) A technologically enhanced suit worn in battle for protection, camouflage, etc.
- beautifuls — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- bel esprit — a witty or clever person
- bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
- belletrist — a writer of belles-lettres
- beltsville — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- bestialism — the state of beasts
- bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
- bestialize — to make bestial or brutal
- 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.
- bill gates — (person) William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. He was a computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes, February 3, 1976).
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- bipetalous — having two petals
- 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
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- blind test — a test in which the participants cannot identify the products that they are testing
- blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
- blitheness — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blithesome — cheery; merry
- blitzstein — Marc, 1905–64, U.S. composer.
- blue shift — a shift toward shorter wavelengths of the spectral lines of a celestial object, caused by the motion of the object toward the observer.
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
- bolshevist — a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- breastrail — the upper rail of any parapet on a ship
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
- cacomistle — a catlike omnivorous mammal, Bassariscus astutus, of S North America, related to but smaller than the raccoons: family Procyonidae, order Carnivora (carnivores). It has yellowish-grey fur and a long bushy tail banded in black and white