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11-letter words containing b, c, e

  • blood-caked — caked with blood
  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • blue cheese — cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue
  • blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
  • blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
  • blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
  • blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
  • blue screen — a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence
  • blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
  • blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
  • blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
  • bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
  • board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • bobbin lace — lace made with bobbins rather than with needle and thread (needlepoint lace); pillow lace
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
  • bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
  • bomb crater — the crater in the ground, pavement, etc, left in the aftermath of an explosion
  • bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
  • boniface ii — pope a.d. 530–532.
  • boniface iv — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • boniface ix — (Pietro Tomacelli) died 1404, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1389–1404.
  • boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
  • book jacket — a removable paper cover used to protect a bound book
  • boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • boric oxide — a colorless crystalline compound, B 2 O 3 , used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.
  • boss screen — a screen image within a computer game that can be activated instantly, designed to hide the evidence of game-playing, esp at work
  • bottle club — a so-called club in which patrons, nominally members, are served liquor from bottles purportedly belonging to them, without regard to liquor control laws
  • bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
  • bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
  • bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
  • bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
  • brace table — a table giving the lengths of the hypotenuses of right isosceles triangles of varying sizes: used especially for calculating the lengths of diagonal braces.
  • braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
  • bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
  • bracteolate — having bractlets
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • 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
  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1.   (web)   Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2.   (programming)   Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
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