11-letter words containing b, l, e, i
- dispersible — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- displayable — Capable of being displayed.
- disposables — Plural form of disposable.
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- disselbooms — Plural form of disselboom.
- dissembleth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissemble.
- dissembling — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
- dissociable — capable of being dissociated; separable: Worthy and unworthy motives are often not dissociable.
- dissolvable — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- dissuadable — That can be dissuaded.
- dissyllable — disyllable.
- distensible — capable of being distended.
- distillable — Capable of being distilled, especially capably of being distilled without chemical decomposition.
- disyllabize — to make disyllabic.
- disyllables — Plural form of disyllable.
- diving bell — a chamber with an open bottom in which persons can go underwater without special apparatus, water being excluded from the upper part by compressed air fed in by a hose.
- dobsonflies — Plural form of dobsonfly.
- docibleness — the quality or character of being docible
- douay bible — an English translation of the Bible, prepared by Roman Catholic scholars from the Vulgate. The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament was published at Douai in 1609–10.
- double bill — presentation: two films
- double bind — Psychology. a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues, especially by a parent, such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other.
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double life — If you say that someone is living a double life, you mean that they lead two separate and very different lives, and they appear to be a different person in each.
- double tide — agger (def 1).
- double time — a doubled wage rate, paid for working on public holidays, etc
- double whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- double-bill — to bill (different accounts) for the same charge: He double-billed different clients for the same business trip.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- double-tide — Also called double tide. Oceanography. a high tide in which the water rises to a certain level, recedes, then rises again. a low tide in which the water recedes to a certain level, rises slightly, then recedes again.
- double-time — to cause to move in double time: Double-time the troops to the mess hall.
- double-wide — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- doubled sig — A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- doublewides — Plural form of doublewide.
- east berlin — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- ebola virus — a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.
- ebulliently — overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited: The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.
- ebullitions — Plural form of ebullition.
- ecblastesis — a condition of flower production in plants in which buds occur within flowers and thereby produce extremely large blooms
- eccaleobion — a type of equipment that provides warmth used to assist in the hatching of eggs
- edible crab — a species of crab, Cancer pagurus, found in the Mediterranean Sea, the North Sea, and the North Atlantic
- educability — capable of being educated.
- elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
- elaboration — The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
- elaborative — Serving to elaborate.
- elbow joint — the joint between the upper arm and the forearm, formed by the junction of the radius and ulna with the humerus