11-letter words containing a, b, l, e, d
- battledores — Plural form of battledore.
- battledress — the ordinary uniform of a soldier, consisting of tunic and trousers
- battlefield — A battlefield is a place where a battle is fought.
- bear leader — (formerly) a tutor traveling with a wealthy or aristocratic young man.
- beau dollar — a silver dollar.
- bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- belle glade — a city in SE Florida.
- belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
- belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
- bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
- billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- black alder — a deciduous shrub (Ilex verticillata) of the holly family, native to E North America, with glossy leaves that turn black in the fall and bright-red berries
- black bread — a kind of very dark coarse rye bread
- black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
- black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
- blackballed — to vote against (a candidate, applicant, etc.).
- blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- bladderlike — resembling a bladder
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
- bleary-eyed — with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
- bleed valve — a valve for running off a liquid from a tank, tube, etc, or for allowing accumulations of gas in a liquid to blow off
- blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
- blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- blood-caked — caked with blood
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- blubberhead — a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
- blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
- blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
- blue-jeaned — wearing blue jeans.
- blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam