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11-letter words containing b, a, l, e, k

  • blackbeetle — oriental cockroach.
  • blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
  • blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
  • blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
  • blacktongue — canine pellagra.
  • bladderlike — resembling a bladder
  • blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
  • blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
  • blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
  • blank slate — tabula rasa.
  • blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
  • blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
  • blanketlike — resembling a blanket
  • blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
  • bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
  • blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
  • block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
  • block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
  • blood-caked — caked with blood
  • blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
  • bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
  • boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
  • bottle bank — A bottle bank is a large container into which people can put empty bottles so that the glass can be used again.
  • bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
  • bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
  • brake block — the part of the brake in a train or on a bicycle that is applied to the wheel to slow the vehicle down or stop it
  • brake cable — a cable that connects a brake handle, pedal, or lever to a vehicle's braking mechanism
  • brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
  • brake lever — (on a bicycle) a lever on the handlebar that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
  • brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
  • brake pedal — (in a vehicle) a pedal that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
  • brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
  • break a leg — to performer: good luck
  • break loose — to free oneself by force
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • 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.
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
  • cache block — cache line
  • cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
  • 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)
  • clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
  • cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
  • cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
  • dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
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