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11-letter words containing b, i, o, l

  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
  • body lotion — skin lotion for use on the body
  • 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.
  • boil-in-bag — of or being a prepared, often frozen, food sealed and sold in a plastic bag that is immersed in boiling water until the contents are cooked or heated for serving.
  • boiler room — any room in a building (often in the basement) that contains a boiler for central heating, etc
  • 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.
  • boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
  • boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
  • bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
  • bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
  • bolingbrook — a city in NE Illinois.
  • boll weevil — a greyish weevil, Anthonomus grandis, of the southern US and Mexico, whose larvae live in and destroy cotton bolls
  • bolt-action — (of a rifle) equipped with a manually operated sliding bolt.
  • bombilation — a humming or buzzing sound, for example that of a bee
  • bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • bontempelli — Massimo. 1878–1960, Italian dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic. His works include the play Nostra Dea (1925) and the novel The Faithful Lover (1953)
  • 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
  • boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
  • boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bootlegging — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
  • bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
  • border line — boundary line; frontier.
  • boring clam — piddock
  • boring mill — a large vertical lathe having a rotating table on which work is secured. Tools are held on a fixed post and the work is rotated around it
  • botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
  • bottle bill — a legislative bill that requires the charging of a refundable deposit on certain beverage bottles and cans, to encourage the return of these containers for recycling while at the same time reducing littering.
  • bottom line — The bottom line in a decision or situation is the most important factor that you have to consider.
  • boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
  • bowling bag — a bag for carrying a bowling ball and often bowling shoes or other equipment.
  • brain coral — a stony coral of the genus Meandrina, in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain
  • bridal gown — a wedding dress
  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bridge roll — a soft bread roll in a long thin shape
  • bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
  • bright wool — the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.
  • bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
  • british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
  • broken line — a discontinuous line or series of line segments, as a series of dashes, or a figure made up of line segments meeting at oblique angles.
  • bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
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