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11-letter words containing b, a, l, o

  • balloonfish — a porcupinefish, Diodon holacanthus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical waters.
  • balloonists — Plural form of balloonist.
  • ballyhooing — Present participle of ballyhoo.
  • balmorality — an idealization of Scottish traditions and culture
  • bamboozling — Present participle of bamboozle.
  • bandywallop — an imaginary town, far from civilization
  • banjo clock — a clock of the early 19th century in the U.S., having a drumlike case for the dial mounted on a narrow, tapering body, with a boxlike bottom containing the pendulum and its weight.
  • bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.
  • barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
  • barber pole — a pole with spiral stripes of red and white, used as a symbol of the barber's trade
  • barbie doll — a teenage doll with numerous sets of clothes and accessories
  • barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
  • barley coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 3/32 to 3/16 inch (2.4 to 4.8 mm).
  • baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
  • baronetical — pertaining to baronets
  • barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
  • barrel bolt — a rod-shaped bolt for fastening a door or the like, attached to one side of the door at the edge and sliding into a socket on the frame of the opening.
  • barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
  • barrel roll — a flight manoeuvre in which an aircraft rolls about its longitudinal axis while following a spiral course in line with the direction of flight
  • barrel roof — a roof or ceiling having a semicylindrical form.
  • barrel-roll — to perform a barrel roll.
  • barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
  • bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
  • bartolommeo — Fra. original name Baccio della Porta. 1472–1517, Italian painter of the Florentine school, noted for his austere religious works
  • basic cobol — (language)   A subset of COBOL from COBOL-60 standards.
  • bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
  • batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
  • batological — relating to the study of brambles
  • battle zone — an area where a battle or battles are being fought
  • battledores — Plural form of battledore.
  • battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
  • battlewagon — a battleship
  • battologist — wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.
  • battologize — to repeat (a word, phrase, mannerism, etc.) excessively.
  • bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
  • be to blame — to be at fault or culpable
  • beach towel — a large towel used on the beach
  • beaker folk — a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium bc
  • beat hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
  • beau dollar — a silver dollar.
  • beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
  • behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
  • belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
  • belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • bengal rose — China rose (def 1).
  • bengal-rose — Also called Bengal rose. a rose, Rosa chinensis, of China, having slightly fragrant crimson, pink, or white flowers.
  • best of all — You use best of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the thing that you prefer or that has most advantages out of all the things you have mentioned.
  • bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
  • betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
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