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10-letter words containing l, w

  • belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
  • belowdecks — below a ship's deck
  • beweltered — soaked with blood
  • bewildered — If you are bewildered, you are very confused and cannot understand something or decide what you should do.
  • bilge well — bilge (def 1c).
  • bilge-well — Nautical. either of the rounded areas that form the transition between the bottom and the sides on the exterior of a hull. Also, bilges. (in a hull with a double bottom) an enclosed area between frames at each side of the floors, where seepage collects. Also called bilge well. a well into which seepage drains to be pumped away. Also called bilge water. seepage accumulated in bilges.
  • 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)
  • black hawk — 1767-1838; chief of the Sauk people: leader in the Black Hawk War against the U.S. (1832)
  • black swan — a phenomenon that occurs even though it had been thought to be impossible
  • blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
  • blank wall — an impassable barricade or obstacle; a situation in which further progress is impossible: Attempts to get information by questioning the neighbors ran into a blank wall.
  • blast away — If a gun, or a person firing a gun, blasts away, the gun is fired continuously for a period of time.
  • 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.
  • blaze away — to fire a gun rapidly a number of times
  • blind-worm — a limbless European lizard, Anguis fragilis, related to the glass lizards.
  • blood flow — the flow of blood through blood vessels around the body
  • blood work — a blood test or blood tests collectively.
  • blow dryer — a handheld hair dryer
  • blow-dried — dried using hairdryer
  • blow-dryer — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance that dries hair by emitting a stream of warm air.
  • blowing up — a reprimand
  • blue wavey — See under wavey.
  • 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
  • blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
  • blush wine — any of certain wines similar in style to dry white wine although slightly pink in color: made like rosé from red-wine grapes, and often named by the grape's name preceded by “white,” as white zinfandel
  • bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
  • bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
  • boldrewood — Rolf, real name Thomas Alexander Browne. 1826–1915, Australian writer, born in the UK, noted for his novels of the Australian outback, esp Robbery Under Arms (1882–3)
  • borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
  • boswellize — to write an account of in the detailed manner of Boswell.
  • boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
  • bow-legged — outward curvature of the legs causing a separation of the knees when the ankles are close or in contact.
  • bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
  • bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
  • bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
  • bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
  • brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
  • brazilwood — a hard, reddish wood obtained from several tropical American trees (genera Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon) of the caesalpinia family: it yields a red or blue dye and is also used in making cabinets and violin bows
  • breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
  • brick wall — a wall made out of brick
  • bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
  • bridlewise — (of a horse) obedient to the pressure of the reins on the neck rather than to the bit
  • brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
  • brown belt — a level of expertise just below that of black belt
  • brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
  • brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
  • brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
  • brushwheel — a toothless wheel with bristles attached to its circumference, used to turn another wheel by friction
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