11-letter words containing b, a, e, l
- 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 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
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- 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.
- cable modem — (communications, hardware) A type of modem that allows people to access the Internet via their cable television service. A cable modem can transfer data at 500 kbps or higher, compared with 28.8 kbps for common telephone line modems, but the actual transfer rates may be lower depending on the number of other simultaneous users on the same cable. Industry pundits often point out that the cable system still does not have the bandwidth or service level in many areas to make this feasible. For example, it has to be capable of two-way communication. See also: DOCSIS.
- cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
- cablevision — cable television.
- cache block — cache line
- cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
- campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- canal barge — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
- cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
- cancellable — able to be cancelled
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- cannibalise — to subject to cannibalism.
- cannibalize — If you cannibalize something, you take it to pieces and use it to make something else.
- capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
- cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
- carbimazole — a drug that inhibits the synthesis of the hormone thyroxine, used in the management of hyperthyroidism
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
- carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
- carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
- casselberry — a city in central Florida.
- casus belli — an event or act used to justify a war
- catabolites — Plural form of catabolite.
- cattle grub — the larva or adult of a warble fly, especially Hypoderma lineatum, a common pest of cattle in North America.
- cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.
- celebes sea — the part of the Pacific Ocean between Sulawesi, Borneo, and Mindanao
- celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
- celebration — A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone's birthday or anniversary.
- celebrative — to observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) with ceremonies or festivities: to celebrate Christmas; to celebrate the success of a new play.
- celebrators — Plural form of celebrator.
- celebratory — A celebratory meal, drink, or other activity takes place to celebrate something such as a birthday, anniversary, or victory.
- celebutante — a young woman from a wealthy background who becomes a celebrity
- celtiberian — a member of a Celtic people (Celtiberi) who inhabited the Iberian peninsula during classical times
- cerebralism — the theory that physical phenomena arise from the action of the brain
- cerebralist — a person that advocates the theory of cerebralism