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11-letter words containing e, w

  • bleed white — to deprive slowly of resources
  • bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
  • blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
  • blow-molded — (of plastic hollowware) made by blowing and shaping in a mold; mold-blown.
  • body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
  • body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
  • bogged down — If you get bogged down in something, it prevents you from making progress or getting something done.
  • boll weevil — a greyish weevil, Anthonomus grandis, of the southern US and Mexico, whose larvae live in and destroy cotton bolls
  • bone marrow — Bone marrow is the soft fatty substance inside human or animal bones.
  • book review — a description and analysis of a new book
  • bow divider — a bow compass, each leg of which terminates in a needle, used to transfer measurements from one area of a drawing to another.
  • bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
  • bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
  • bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
  • boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
  • bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
  • brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
  • breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
  • breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
  • bridal wear — clothes specially designed for brides
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridge view — a town in NE Illinois.
  • bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
  • bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
  • brocken bow — anticorona.
  • broken wind — heaves
  • broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
  • brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brown algae — any algae of the phylum Phaeophyta, such as the wracks and kelps, which contain a brown pigment in addition to chlorophyll
  • brown betty — a baked apple pudding made with butter, spices, sugar, and bread crumbs
  • brown bread — bread made with wholemeal flour, or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
  • brown paper — a coarse unbleached paper used for wrapping
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • browned off — If you say that you are browned off, you mean that you are annoyed and depressed.
  • browned-off — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
  • brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
  • brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
  • bubble bowl — a spherical, usually clear glass vessel with a wide circular top opening, used as a vase, especially for displaying a single floating blossom.
  • bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
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