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11-letter words containing b, e, l, k

  • doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
  • emblem book — a book of allegorical pictures containing a moral lesson, with an explanatory motto or verses
  • farkleberry — a shrub or small tree, Vaccinium arboreum, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., bearing small, waxy, white flowers and black, many-seeded berries.
  • fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
  • fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
  • goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
  • goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
  • golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
  • half-broken — past participle of break.
  • halterbreak — to get (an animal) used to wearing a halter
  • hamba kahle — goodbye, farewell (esp to the dead)
  • heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
  • horse block — a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.
  • huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
  • husbandlike — resembling a husband
  • irrevokable — Alternative spelling of irrevocable.
  • jailbreaker — One who breaks out of jail.
  • jockey club — an association for the regulation and promotion of thoroughbred horse racing, usually composed of racing officials and thoroughbred owners at a specific racetrack or in a particular region.
  • keelboatman — a member of the crew of a keelboat.
  • kennel club — an association of dog breeders, usually concerned only with certain breeds of dogs.
  • kerb appeal — the attractiveness to potential buyers of a house when viewed from the road
  • kettle base — a bombé base to a piece of furniture.
  • keyed bugle — a bugle that has keys to make it possible to play a chromatic scale
  • killer bars — an imprint consisting of a series of wavy lines used to cancel postage stamps.
  • killer blow — something that puts a stop to something or defeats something
  • killer boat — a boat used for hunting whales and towing them to a factory ship.
  • king's blue — cobalt blue.
  • klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
  • knuckleball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
  • knucklebone — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
  • krebs cycle — a cycle of enzyme-catalyzed reactions in living cells that is the final series of reactions of aerobic metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins, and fatty acids, and by which carbon dioxide is produced, oxygen is reduced, and ATP is formed.
  • kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
  • ladder back — a chair back having a number of horizontal slats between uprights.
  • lake albert — a lake in E Africa, between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda in the great Rift Valley, 660 m (2200 ft) above sea level: a source of the Nile, fed by the Victoria Nile, which leaves as the Albert Nile. Area: 5345 sq km (2064 sq miles)
  • lake baikal — a lake in Russia, in SE Siberia: the largest freshwater lake in Eurasia and the deepest in the world. Greatest depth: over 1500 m (5000 ft). Area: about 33 670 sq km (13 000 sq miles)
  • lake breeze — a thermally produced wind blowing during the day from the surface of a large lake to the shore, caused by the difference in the rates of heating of the surfaces of the lake and of the land.
  • lake kariba — a dam built across the Zambezi for the purposes of generating hydroelectric power; it created Lake Kariba on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border
  • large black — a heavy black breed of pig with long lop ears: used for crossbreeding
  • law-breaker — A law-breaker is someone who breaks the law.
  • lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
  • lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
  • leatherback — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
  • likableness — The property of being likable, that which makes likable.
  • like a bird — without resistance or difficulty
  • like a bomb — with great speed or success; very well (esp in the phrase go like a bomb)
  • like billyo — (intensifier)
  • like blazes — with furious energy, speed, etc.
  • likeability — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
  • linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
  • linebacking — the act of forming a second line of defence, close to the linesman
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