11-letter words containing e, y, l
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- blaze a way — to pioneer, set a direction or course, etc.
- bleary-eyed — with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
- blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blood money — If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation.
- blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
- blue myrtle — blueblossom.
- blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
- blytheville — a city in NE Arkansas.
- body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
- body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
- bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
- bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
- bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
- boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- bumbleberry — a mixture of berries used in pie fillings and in preserves
- bumblepuppy — a game of whist played carelessly or contrary to rules and conventions.
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- burlesquely — in a burlesque manner
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- busy lizzie — a balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens balsamina, that has pink, red, or white flowers and is often grown as a pot plant
- butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- by-election — A by-election is an election that is held to choose a new member of parliament when a member has resigned or died.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
- cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
- cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
- calefactory — giving warmth
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
- cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
- carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
- caressingly — In a caressing manner; soothingly.
- caressively — caressingly
- casselberry — a city in central Florida.
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.