11-letter words containing b, e, d, l
- bleary-eyed — with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
- bleed screw — A bleed screw is a type of tap or valve that helps to drain a hydraulic system, such as a brake system.
- bleed valve — a valve for running off a liquid from a tank, tube, etc, or for allowing accumulations of gas in a liquid to blow off
- bleed white — to deprive slowly of resources
- blessedness — consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified: the Blessed Sacrament.
- bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
- blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
- blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
- blind tiger — speak-easy
- blind-sided — Sports. to tackle, hit, or attack (an opponent) from the blind side: The quarterback was blindsided and had the ball knocked out of his hand.
- blindfolded — wearing a blindfold
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- blood fluke — any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea
- blood level — the amount of a substance, as cholesterol, alcohol, or triglycerides, circulating in the bloodstream: often expressed as a percent or in milligrams or micrograms per deciliter of blood.
- blood libel — the malicious accusation that Jews used the blood of non-Jews in religious rituals
- blood money — If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation.
- blood purge — the mass execution, especially by a government, of persons considered guilty of treason or sedition.
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- blood-caked — caked with blood
- bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
- bloodletter — someone or something which lets blood
- bloodmobile — a motor vehicle equipped for collecting blood from donors
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- blow-molded — (of plastic hollowware) made by blowing and shaping in a mold; mold-blown.
- blubberhead — a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
- bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- blue devils — a fit of depression or melancholy
- blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
- blue murder — If you say that someone screams blue murder or screams bloody murder, you are emphasizing that they are making a lot of noise or fuss about something that they do not like.
- blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
- blue shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
- blue-jeaned — wearing blue jeans.
- blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
- blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
- blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- bobsledding — a sled having two pairs of runners, a brake, and a steering wheel or other mechanism that enables the front rider to direct the sled down a steeply banked run or chute.
- body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
- body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
- bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
- bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
- boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.