11-letter words containing b, l, e, o
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
- 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 house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- blood fluke — any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea
- blood level — the amount of a substance, as cholesterol, alcohol, or triglycerides, circulating in the bloodstream: often expressed as a percent or in milligrams or micrograms per deciliter of blood.
- blood libel — the malicious accusation that Jews used the blood of non-Jews in religious rituals
- 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.
- blood purge — the mass execution, especially by a government, of persons considered guilty of treason or sedition.
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- blood-caked — caked with blood
- bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
- bloodletter — someone or something which lets blood
- bloodmobile — a motor vehicle equipped for collecting blood from donors
- 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.
- blow-molded — (of plastic hollowware) made by blowing and shaping in a mold; mold-blown.
- bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- 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 collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
- blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
- blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
- blue ribbon — A blue ribbon is the same as a blue riband.
- blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
- blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
- 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.
- boat people — Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- 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.
- body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
- 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.
- 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.
- bok globule — a dense spherical cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space that absorbs light from stars.
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.