11-letter words containing c, l, b
- backlashing — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.
- backlisting — Present participle of backlist.
- backloading — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- backlogging — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- backpedaled — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of backpedal.
- backslapped — Simple past tense and past participle of backslap.
- backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
- backslashed — Simple past tense and past participle of backslash.
- backslashes — Plural form of backslash.
- backslidden — Past participle of backslide.
- backsliding — If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.
- backsolving — Present participle of backsolve.
- backtalking — Present participle of backtalk.
- bacterially — In reference to bacteria.
- baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
- badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
- balance lug — a lugsail having a portion of its area forward of the mast and having a long foot, often with a boom.
- balance out — If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
- baldacchino — baldachin
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- ball hockey — a game similar to ice hockey, but played on foot on a hard surface without ice, using a hard plastic ball instead of a puck
- ballcarrier — an attacking player in possession of the ball
- ballicatter — (in Newfoundland) ice that forms along a shore from waves and spray
- baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
- banjo clock — a clock of the early 19th century in the U.S., having a drumlike case for the dial mounted on a narrow, tapering body, with a boxlike bottom containing the pendulum and its weight.
- barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
- bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
- barley coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 3/32 to 3/16 inch (2.4 to 4.8 mm).
- barley sack — a burlap bag.
- baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
- baronetical — pertaining to baronets
- barrel cuff — a single cuff on a tailored sleeve, formed by a band of material and usually fastened by a button.
- barrel-race — to compete in a barrel race.
- base clause — the initial element of a recursive definition, that defines the first element of the infinite sequence generated thereby
- basic cobol — (language) A subset of COBOL from COBOL-60 standards.
- basic steel — steel produced by the basic process.
- basicranial — of or relating to the base of the skull
- batch plant — a manufacturing plant where concrete is mixed before being transported to a construction site ready to be poured.
- batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
- batological — relating to the study of brambles
- battlepiece — a painting, relief, mosaic, etc, depicting a battle, usually commemorating an actual event
- battlespace — the area of air, sea, and land that is directly involved in war, often taken to include any technological, environmental, infrastructural, or temporal factors which may be relevant to the success of a mission
- baume scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the specific gravity of liquids. 1 degree Baumé is equal to 144.3((s–1)/s), where s is specific gravity
- bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
- bbc english — Received Pronunciation.
- beach towel — a large towel used on the beach
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
- belize city — a port and the largest city in Belize, on the Caribbean coast: capital until 1973, when that function was transferred inland to Belmopan owing to hurricane risk. Pop: 53 000 (2005 est)