11-letter words containing a, b, s, l
- breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- broad glass — cylinder glass.
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- bullmastiff — a breed of dog
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- bush ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bush league — In baseball, a bush league is the same as a minor league.
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bush-league — inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- cabbalistic — cabala.
- cabin class — a class of accommodation on a passenger ship between first class and tourist class
- cablevision — cable television.
- calico bass — crappie
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- cannibalise — to subject to cannibalism.
- cannibalism — If a group of people practise cannibalism, they eat the flesh of other people.
- cannonballs — Plural form of cannonball.
- capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- cashability — money or an equivalent, as a check, paid at the time of making a purchase.
- casselberry — a city in central Florida.
- castability — the ability of materials to set in a mould when mixed with water and a bonding agent
- casus belli — an event or act used to justify a war
- catabolisms — Plural form of catabolism.
- catabolites — Plural form of catabolite.
- causability — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- celebes sea — the part of the Pacific Ocean between Sulawesi, Borneo, and Mindanao
- celebrators — Plural form of celebrator.
- cerebralism — the theory that physical phenomena arise from the action of the brain
- cerebralist — a person that advocates the theory of cerebralism
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- cherishable — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare