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11-letter words containing c, l, e, a

  • bacillicide — anything that kills a bacillus; a bactericide
  • back boiler — a tank or series of pipes at the back of a fireplace for heating water
  • back-loaded — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
  • back-logged — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
  • back-paddle — to propel a boat by paddling backward, as by using a stroke in the direction of stern to bow.
  • backchannel — an unofficial or covert means of conveying information, originally or esp in political or diplomatic circles
  • backlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.
  • 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.
  • bacterially — In reference to bacteria.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 steel — steel produced by the basic process.
  • 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
  • beach towel — a large towel used on the beach
  • beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
  • belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
  • bellyaching — constant complaining
  • bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
  • bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
  • betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
  • bible class — a class, typically one meeting weekly, for Bible study
  • bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
  • bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
  • binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
  • binucleated — having two nuclei
  • biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
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