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11-letter words containing c, r, e, b

  • 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.
  • block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
  • blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • 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 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.
  • board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
  • bomb crater — the crater in the ground, pavement, etc, left in the aftermath of an explosion
  • boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • boric oxide — a colorless crystalline compound, B 2 O 3 , used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.
  • boss screen — a screen image within a computer game that can be activated instantly, designed to hide the evidence of game-playing, esp at work
  • bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
  • brace table — a table giving the lengths of the hypotenuses of right isosceles triangles of varying sizes: used especially for calculating the lengths of diagonal braces.
  • braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
  • bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
  • bracteolate — having bractlets
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • brake block — the part of the brake in a train or on a bicycle that is applied to the wheel to slow the vehicle down or stop it
  • brake cable — a cable that connects a brake handle, pedal, or lever to a vehicle's braking mechanism
  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1.   (web)   Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2.   (programming)   Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
  • break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
  • breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
  • brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
  • brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
  • breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
  • breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
  • breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bride price — (in some societies) money, property, or services given by a bridegroom to the kinsmen of his bride in order to establish his rights over the woman
  • bridge deck — a deck on top of a bridge house; flying bridge.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • broad-faced — having a broad, wide face.
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