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

  • bloodguilty — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • blue helmet — a member of a United Nations military force, usually deployed on peacekeeping missions, and recognizable by a helmet or beret of a distinctive light blue colour
  • blue mantle — one of the four pursuivants of the British College of Arms
  • blue myrtle — blueblossom.
  • blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
  • blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
  • blue velvet — a mixture of paregoric and Pyribenzamine taken by vein as an illicit drug.
  • boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
  • 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.
  • bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
  • boston bull — Boston terrier
  • bottle club — a so-called club in which patrons, nominally members, are served liquor from bottles purportedly belonging to them, without regard to liquor control laws
  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • bottom plug — A bottom plug is a bridge or cement seal placed near the bottom of the well in order to shut it off.
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
  • brick-built — made of bricks
  • 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.
  • bubble bath — Bubble bath is a liquid that smells nice and makes a lot of bubbles when you add it to your bath water.
  • bubble sort — A sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries "bubble upward" in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value. Because it is not very good relative to other methods and is the one typically stumbled on by naive and untutored programmers, hackers consider it the canonical example of a naive algorithm. The canonical example of a really *bad* algorithm is bogo-sort. A bubble sort might be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue only from brain damage or willful perversity.
  • bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • buffet line — A buffet line is a selection of food that is displayed on a long table. Guests usually serve themselves.
  • buffet meal — meal at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • build up to — If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually.
  • bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
  • bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
  • bullbaiting — a type of blood sport involving the baiting of a bull by dogs
  • bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
  • bullet hole — hole made by a bullet
  • bullet tree — any of various tropical American trees, as Manilkara bidentata, of the sapodilla family, that yield the gum balata.
  • bullet wood — the wood of a bully tree.
  • bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bullfighter — A bullfighter is the person who tries to injure or kill the bull in a bullfight.
  • bullmastiff — a breed of dog
  • bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • bullterrier — a breed of dog
  • bumble-foot — an inflammatory condition of the feet of birds, usually caused by an infection
  • bunch light — a light consisting of a group of small light bulbs mounted in a reflecting box.
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • bus shelter — A bus shelter is a bus stop that has a roof and at least one open side.
  • bustle pipe — an annular pipe distributing hot air to the tuyères.
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • butt chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade less than 4 inches (10 cm) long.
  • butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
  • butterfield — William. 1814–1900, British architect of the Gothic Revival; his buildings include Keble College, Oxford (1870) and All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1849–59)
  • butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness
  • butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
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