11-letter words containing i, l, b, e, d
- blind tiger — speak-easy
- blind-sided — Sports. to tackle, hit, or attack (an opponent) from the blind side: The quarterback was blindsided and had the ball knocked out of his hand.
- blindfolded — wearing a blindfold
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blood libel — the malicious accusation that Jews used the blood of non-Jews in religious rituals
- bloodmobile — a motor vehicle equipped for collecting blood from donors
- bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- blue devils — a fit of depression or melancholy
- blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
- blue shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
- blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- bobsledding — a sled having two pairs of runners, a brake, and a steering wheel or other mechanism that enables the front rider to direct the sled down a steeply banked run or chute.
- 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.
- bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- border line — boundary line; frontier.
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
- 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 lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
- bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bridge roll — a soft bread roll in a long thin shape
- bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
- bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
- bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
- bristlebird — any of various Australian warblers of the genus Dasyornis.
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bull fiddle — double bass
- butterfield — William. 1814–1900, British architect of the Gothic Revival; his buildings include Keble College, Oxford (1870) and All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1849–59)
- charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
- chilblained — Afflicted with a chilblain.
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
- child bride — a very young bride, esp when the groom is considerably older
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- cleanlimbed — having shapely limbs
- condensible — capable of being condensed.
- conductible — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- credibility — If someone or something has credibility, people believe in them and trust them.
- d'iberville — Sieur(born Pierre Le Moyne) 1661-1706; Fr. explorer in North America
- danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
- dealing box — a box that holds a deck or decks of cards, allowing them to be dealt only one at a time, often used in casino games such as blackjack or chemin de fer.
- debilitated — in a severely weakened state
- debilitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debilitate.
- debt relief — Debt relief is a reduction in the amount of debt that a country has to pay.
- deductibles — Plural form of deductible.
- defatigable — (very, rare) Easily tired or wearied; capable of being fatigued.
- delabialize — to deprive (a sound) of labial character, as in unrounding a vowel.