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

  • bladdernose — hooded seal
  • blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
  • blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
  • blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
  • blank slate — tabula rasa.
  • blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
  • blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
  • blanketlike — resembling a blanket
  • blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
  • blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blemishment — a flaw or blemish
  • blessedness — consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified: the Blessed Sacrament.
  • blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
  • blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
  • blind tiger — speak-easy
  • blind-sided — Sports. to tackle, hit, or attack (an opponent) from the blind side: The quarterback was blindsided and had the ball knocked out of his hand.
  • blindfolded — wearing a blindfold
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
  • block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
  • blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
  • blood money — If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation.
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • 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 island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • blue mantle — one of the four pursuivants of the British College of Arms
  • blue marlin — a large marlin, Makaira nigricans, occurring worldwide in warm and temperate seas, highly prized in sportfishing and as a food fish.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
  • blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
  • blue ribbon — A blue ribbon is the same as a blue riband.
  • blue runner — a carangid fish of American Atlantic waters, Caranx crysos
  • 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-jeaned — wearing blue jeans.
  • blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
  • blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
  • blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  • blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
  • bobbin lace — lace made with bobbins rather than with needle and thread (needlepoint lace); pillow lace
  • 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.
  • bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
  • 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)
  • bookselling — the activity of selling books
  • boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
  • boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
  • bootlegging — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
  • border line — boundary line; frontier.
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