11-letter words containing b, a, r, l, e
- baskerville — a style of type
- bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
- bass reflex — a loudspeaker equipped with a baffle having openings designed to improve the reproduction of low-frequency sounds.
- bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
- bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
- batter pile — a pile driven at an angle to the vertical.
- battle star — a small star worn on a campaign ribbon, awarded to a member of the armed forces for participation in a particular battle or campaign
- battledores — Plural form of battledore.
- battledress — the ordinary uniform of a soldier, consisting of tunic and trousers
- battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
- be all ears — to be listening attentively or eagerly
- 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
- beam aerial — an aerial system, such as a Yagi aerial, having directional properties
- bear leader — (formerly) a tutor traveling with a wealthy or aristocratic young man.
- bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
- bearer bill — a bill payable to the person in possession
- beau dollar — a silver dollar.
- beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
- beaver tail — a flat oval doughnut served fried and sugared
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- beer barrel — a barrel for, or containing beer
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
- belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
- beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
- bell beaker — a bell-shaped beaker, especially one associated with the Beaker folk.
- belligerati — intellectuals, such as writers, who advocate war or imperialism
- 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
- belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
- 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.
- berlin wall — a wall dividing the east and west sectors of Berlin, built in 1961 by the East German authorities to stop the flow of refugees from east to west; demolition of the wall began in 1989
- bersagliere — a member of a rifle regiment in the Italian Army
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- better half — one's spouse
- bible paper — a thin tough opaque paper used for Bibles, prayer books, and reference books
- bibliolater — someone who reveres the Bible
- big-leaguer — Sports. a player in a major league.
- bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
- bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
- bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
- billionaire — A billionaire is an extremely rich person who has money or property worth at least a thousand million pounds or dollars.
- billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
- bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
- binary file — (file format) Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
- biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues