10-letter words containing ll
- 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.
- bankrolled — money in one's possession; monetary resources.
- bankroller — the person or organization that provides the finance for a project, business, etc
- barbellate — (of plants or plant organs) covered with barbs, hooks, or bristles
- barbirolli — Sir John. 1899–1970, English conductor of the Hallé Orchestra (1943–68)
- barcarolle — a boating song of the Venetian gondoliers.
- barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- basal cell — a cell of the basal, or deepest, layer of the epidermis
- baseballer — a person who plays baseball
- basketball — Basketball is a game in which two teams of five players each try to score goals by throwing a large ball through a circular net fixed to a metal ring at each end of the court.
- battallion — Archaic form of battalion.
- bazillions — Plural form of bazillion.
- be all for — to be strongly in favour of
- be hell on — to be very difficult or painful for
- beach ball — A beach ball is a large, light ball filled with air, which people play with, especially on the beach.
- beachballs — Plural form of beachball.
- beautifull — Obsolete spelling of beautiful.
- bedevilled — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- bedfellows — Plural form of bedfellow.
- bee killer — robber fly.
- beer belly — If a man has a beer belly, he has a fat stomach because of drinking too much beer.
- bejewelled — A bejewelled person or object is wearing a lot of jewellery or is decorated with jewels.
- 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.