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11-letter words containing a, l, n

  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
  • branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
  • breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • bridal gown — a wedding dress
  • bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
  • brilliantly — shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrous: the brilliant lights of the city.
  • bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • brown algae — any algae of the phylum Phaeophyta, such as the wracks and kelps, which contain a brown pigment in addition to chlorophyll
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bullbaiting — a type of blood sport involving the baiting of a bull by dogs
  • bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
  • bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
  • cabin class — a class of accommodation on a passenger ship between first class and tourist class
  • cablevision — cable television.
  • caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
  • cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
  • calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
  • calc-sinter — travertine
  • calcimining — Present participle of calcimine.
  • calcination — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
  • calcinatory — A vessel used in calcination.
  • calcineurin — (enzyme) A protein phosphatase that stimulates the growth and differentiation of T cells.
  • calculating — If you describe someone as calculating, you disapprove of the fact that they deliberately plan to get what they want, often by hurting or harming other people.
  • calculation — A calculation is something that you think about and work out mathematically. Calculation is the process of working something out mathematically.
  • calefacient — causing warmth
  • calefaction — the act of heating
  • calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendarist — a person who calendarizes
  • calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
  • calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
  • calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
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