11-letter words containing b, e, d, l
- bass fiddle — double bass.
- battledores — Plural form of battledore.
- battledress — the ordinary uniform of a soldier, consisting of tunic and trousers
- battlefield — A battlefield is a place where a battle is fought.
- bear leader — (formerly) a tutor traveling with a wealthy or aristocratic young man.
- beau dollar — a silver dollar.
- beblubbered — tearstained, covered in tears from weeping
- bed molding — a molding below a projecting part, esp. between the corona and frieze
- bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- bedevilling — (British) present participle of bedevil.
- bedevilment — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- behind line — the line over which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
- belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- belle glade — a city in SE Florida.
- bellfounder — a foundry worker who casts bells
- bellmouthed — having a flaring mouth or opening like that of a bell
- belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
- below decks — If someone or something is below decks, they are inside a ship in the part of it that is underneath the deck.
- belowground — underground
- belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
- belted tire — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- bend double — When you bend double, you bend the top half of your body downwards a long way.
- bent double — If someone is bent double, the top part of their body is leaning forward towards their legs, usually because they are in great pain or because they are laughing a lot. In American English, you can also say that someone is bent over double.
- bergenfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
- bid welcome — to receive with cordial greetings
- bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
- bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
- billet-doux — a love letter
- billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
- bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- biomodeling — the mathematical modeling of biological reactions.
- black alder — a deciduous shrub (Ilex verticillata) of the holly family, native to E North America, with glossy leaves that turn black in the fall and bright-red berries
- black bread — a kind of very dark coarse rye bread
- black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
- black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
- blackballed — to vote against (a candidate, applicant, etc.).
- blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- bladderlike — resembling a bladder
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae