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11-letter words containing c, l, u

  • baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
  • 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.
  • baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
  • bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
  • barrel cuff — a single cuff on a tailored sleeve, formed by a band of material and usually fastened by a button.
  • base clause — the initial element of a recursive definition, that defines the first element of the infinite sequence generated thereby
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • biauricular — having two auricles.
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • binucleated — having two nuclei
  • biomolecule — a molecule occurring naturally in living organisms
  • black angus — Aberdeen Angus
  • black cumin — a Eurasian herb, Nigella sativa, having pungent aromatic seeds used as a spice, but unrelated to cumin.
  • black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
  • black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
  • black stump — a long way off
  • blacktongue — canine pellagra.
  • bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
  • bleu cheese — blue cheese
  • block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
  • blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blood count — Your blood count is the number of red and white cells in your blood. A blood count can also refer to a medical examination which determines the number of red and white cells in your blood.
  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • blue cheese — cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue
  • blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
  • blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
  • blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
  • blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
  • blue screen — a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence
  • blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
  • blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
  • blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
  • bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • body colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
  • bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
  • bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
  • 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
  • breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
  • brick-built — made of bricks
  • bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
  • brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
  • bubble card — blister pack.
  • bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
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