10-letter words containing lo
- blowing up — a reprimand
- blue blood — If you say that someone has blue blood, you mean that they are from a family that has a high social rank.
- blue lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- blue phlox — a plant, Phlox divaricata, of eastern North America, having creeping, rooting stems and mauve flowers.
- bnr prolog — A constraint logic language.
- body clock — Your body clock is the internal biological mechanism which causes your body to automatically behave in particular ways at particular times of the day.
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- bollocking — a severe telling-off; dressing-down
- bone felon — felon2 .
- book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
- book lover — a person who enjoys reading and reads more than the average person
- boot block — (operating system) A program on a hard disk, floppy disk or other media, which is loaded when the computer is turned on or rebooted and which controls the next phase of loading the actual operating system. The loading and execution of the boot block is usually controlled by firmware in ROM or PROM. It may be at some fixed location possibly or may be pointed to by the master boot record.
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- bouillotte — a French card game similar to poker
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- brahmaloka — the highest part of Kamaloka, where refined souls exist in blissful contemplation of Brahma.
- 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.
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- brillo pad — a scouring pad made of wire wool filled with soap
- broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- buddhology — the study of Buddha and of Buddhahood.
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- bull block — a machine for drawing wire in which the wire is pulled through the dies by a power-operated drum.
- bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
- bump along — advance unevenly
- 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.
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- buzz along — a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
- cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
- callowness — immature or inexperienced: a callow youth.
- caloricity — Ectothermy.
- calorifier — a water tank fitted with a coil, or coils, that can be heated in order to heat the water
- calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
- camelopard — giraffe
- campobello — an island in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of SE Canada: part of New Brunswick province. Pop: 1195 (2001). Area: about 52 sq km (20 sq miles)
- cancellous — having a porous or spongelike structure
- candyfloss — Candyfloss is a large pink or white mass of sugar threads that is eaten from a stick. It is sold at fairs or other outdoor events.
- cannelloni — Cannelloni is large tube-shaped pieces of pasta that contain a filling of meat, cheese, or vegetables.
- cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- cardiology — Cardiology is the study of the heart and its diseases.
- carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
- cast loose — to untie or unfasten; become or set free
- catalogers — Plural form of cataloger.
- cataloging — Make a systematic list of (items of the same type).
- catalogist — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- catalogize — to make a list of or catalogue
- catalogued — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- cataloguer — One who catalogues.