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11-letter words containing b, u, l, e, t, o

  • double duty — designed to fill two functions: double-duty tools.
  • double flat — a symbol () that lowers the pitch of the note following it by two semitones.
  • 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 knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
  • double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
  • double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
  • double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
  • double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • double tide — agger (def 1).
  • double time — a doubled wage rate, paid for working on public holidays, etc
  • double-date — to take part in a double date.
  • double-duty — designed to fill two functions: double-duty tools.
  • double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
  • double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
  • double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
  • double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
  • double-team — to defend against or block (an opposing player) by using two players, as in football or basketball: By double-teaming the end the safety men left the other receiver in the open.
  • 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.
  • doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
  • doubletrees — Plural form of doubletree.
  • doubtlessly — without doubt; certainly; surely; unquestionably.
  • dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
  • ebullitions — Plural form of ebullition.
  • fat-soluble — soluble in oils or fats.
  • floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
  • full bottle — well-informed and enthusiastic about something
  • gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
  • isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
  • lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
  • locust bean — carob.
  • luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
  • microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
  • mobile unit — a vehicle supplied with the basic equipment or materials necessary for a particular purpose, as for televising on location or being used as an x-ray or inoculation clinic.
  • mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
  • mossbluiter — the bittern
  • multilobate — having or comprised of several lobes
  • neuroblasts — Plural form of neuroblast.
  • obliquities — Plural form of obliquity.
  • obtrusively — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
  • on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
  • outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
  • outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
  • politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
  • post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
  • productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
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