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

  • belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
  • benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • berkeley fp — (language)   A version of Backus's FP distributed with 4.2BSD Unix.
  • berkeleyism — any philosophical system or doctrine derived from the views of Bishop Berkeley.
  • beryl green — a light bluish green.
  • berylliosis — a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium
  • beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
  • berzerkeley — (humour)   /b*r-zer'klee/ (From "berserk", via the name of a now-deceased record label) A humorous distortion of "Berkeley" used especially to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix hackers. See software bloat, Missed'em-five, Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s.
  • beseemingly — in a manner that is beseeming
  • besiegingly — in an urgent or important manner
  • bible story — a story from the Bible
  • bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
  • billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
  • bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
  • binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
  • binary file — (file format)   Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
  • biocenology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of biological communities and the interactions among their members.
  • biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
  • bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
  • blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
  • blaze a way — to pioneer, set a direction or course, etc.
  • bleary-eyed — with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
  • 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.
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • 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.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • blue myrtle — blueblossom.
  • blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
  • blytheville — a city in NE Arkansas.
  • 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.
  • bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
  • bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
  • boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
  • boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
  • breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
  • breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
  • bumbleberry — a mixture of berries used in pie fillings and in preserves
  • bumblepuppy — a game of whist played carelessly or contrary to rules and conventions.
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • burlesquely — in a burlesque manner
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • busy lizzie — a balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens balsamina, that has pink, red, or white flowers and is often grown as a pot plant
  • butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
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