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15-letter words containing b, l

  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blagoveshchensk — a city and port in E Russia, in Siberia on the Amur River. Pop: 222 000 (2005 est)
  • blanc de blancs — white wine, esp. champagne, made from white grapes
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
  • blasphemousness — the quality of being blasphemous
  • blast injection — the injection of liquid fuel directly into the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine using a blast of high-pressure air to atomize the spray of fuel
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blended whiskey — whiskey that is a blend of straight whiskey and neutral spirits or of two or more straight whiskeys
  • blending center — A blending center is a place for mixing fluids, gases, and powders.
  • blenheim orange — a type of apple tree bearing gold-coloured apples
  • blenheim palace — a palace in Woodstock in Oxfordshire: built (1705–22) by Sir John Vanbrugh for the 1st Duke of Marlborough as a reward from the nation for his victory at Blenheim; gardens laid out by Henry Wise and Capability Brown; birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill (1874)
  • blessed trinity — Trinity (def 1).
  • blindman's buff — a game in which a blindfolded player has to catch and identify another player
  • blockade runner — a person, ship etc that tries to carry goods through a blockade
  • blockade-runner — a ship or person that passes through a blockade.
  • blocked records — (storage)   Several records written as a contiguous block on magnetic tape so that they may be accessed in a single I/O operation. Blocking increases the amount of data that may be stored on a tape because there are fewer inter-block gaps. It requires that the tape drive or processor have a sufficiently large buffer to store the whole block.
  • blood corpuscle — one of the cells in the blood
  • blood poisoning — Blood poisoning is a serious illness resulting from an infection in your blood.
  • bloodguiltiness — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • bloody butchers — a hardy plant, Trillium sessile, common from New York to Georgia and westward, having stalkless, purple or green flowers.
  • blossom-end rot — a disease of tomato and pepper caused by a deficiency of calcium, characterized by decay at the blossom end of the fruit.
  • blotch printing — a fabric-printing method in which the ground color is transferred from the cylinder and the motif retains the original hue of the cloth.
  • blow one's cool — (of the wind or air) to be in motion.
  • blow one's cork — to lose one's temper; become enraged
  • blow one's horn — to boast about oneself; brag
  • blow one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • blue cattle dog — an Australian breed of dog with a bluish coat, developed for herding cattle
  • blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
  • blue-eyed grass — any of various mainly North American iridaceous marsh plants of the genus Sisyrinchium that have grasslike leaves and small flat starlike blue flowers
  • blueback salmon — sockeye salmon.
  • bluegrass state — Kentucky (used as a nickname).
  • bo diddley beat — a type of syncopated Black rhythm, frequently used in rock music
  • board of health — an agency with responsibility for health in state, country, etc
  • board of parole — an agency that determines which prisoners are to be released on parole
  • boarding school — A boarding school is a school which some or all of the pupils live in during the school term. Compare day school.
  • boating holiday — a holiday spent sailing or travelling in a canal boat, cruiser, etc
  • bodily function — A person's bodily functions are the normal physical processes that regularly occur in their body, particularly the ability to urinate and defecate.
  • boil-in-the-bag — (of food) able to be boiled in a sealed bag until ready to eat
  • boiled dressing — a cooked salad dressing thickened with egg yolks and often containing mustard.
  • boiled potatoes — potatoes, usually peeled, cooked in boiling water
  • bologna sausage — a large smoked sausage made of seasoned mixed meats
  • boolean algebra — a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole to codify logical operations. It is used in computers
  • boom-bust cycle — A boom-bust cycle is a series of events in which a rapid increase in business activity in the economy is followed by a rapid decrease in business activity, and this process is repeated again and again.
  • borderline case — a person or thing that is not clearly classifiable as something
  • borough council — a local government body elected by a borough
  • borough-english — (until 1925) a custom in certain English boroughs whereby the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers
  • bottled in bond — stored in bonded warehouses for a stated length of time before being bottled, as some whiskey
  • bottom-up model — (programming)   A method for estimating the cost of a complete software project by combining estimates for each component.
  • botulinum toxin — a pharmaceutical formulation of botulin used in minute doses to treat various forms of muscle spasm and for the cosmetic removal of wrinkles
  • bouillotte lamp — a table lamp of the 18th century, having two or three adjustable candle brackets and a common shade sliding on a central shaft.
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