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11-letter words containing c, l, e

  • bachelorism — bachelorhood
  • bacillaemia — the presence of bacilli in the blood
  • 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
  • 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)
  • bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
  • 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
  • below decks — If someone or something is below decks, they are inside a ship in the part of it that is underneath the deck.
  • belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
  • belt-course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • 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
  • benevolence — inclination or tendency to help or do good to others; charity
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