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

  • 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-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.
  • bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
  • border line — boundary line; frontier.
  • 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.
  • brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
  • brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • brazzaville — the capital of Congo-Brazzaville, in the south on the River Congo. Pop: 1 153 000 (2005 est)
  • breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
  • bridal wear — clothes specially designed for brides
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
  • 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
  • bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • 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
  • bristliness — the quality of being bristly
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • brittleness — the quality of being brittle
  • 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.
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
  • brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
  • bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
  • buffet line — A buffet line is a selection of food that is displayed on a long table. Guests usually serve themselves.
  • bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
  • bulimarexia — bulimia (sense 2)
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bull fiddle — double bass
  • bullfighter — A bullfighter is the person who tries to injure or kill the bull in a bullfight.
  • bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • bullterrier — a breed of dog
  • bump uglies — to have sexual intercourse
  • bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
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