11-letter words containing b, e, l, s
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- 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 a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- 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 devils — a fit of depression or melancholy
- blue ensign — an ensign having the Union Jack on a blue background at the upper corner of the vertical edge alongside the hoist: flown by Royal Navy auxiliary vessels, and, with some extra distinguishing mark or insignia, by certain yacht clubs
- blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
- blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- 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 shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
- blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
- blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
- blueblossom — a shrub, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, of the buckthorn family, abundant in the western U.S., having finely toothed oblong leaves and lilaclike clusters of blue flowers.
- blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
- blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
- 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 shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
- boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
- bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- bookselling — the activity of selling books
- boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
- boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- break loose — to free oneself by force
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
- breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
- brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
- bristlebird — any of various Australian warblers of the genus Dasyornis.
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- bristlelike — resembling a bristle
- bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages