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11-letter words containing i, l, r

  • berlin wall — a wall dividing the east and west sectors of Berlin, built in 1961 by the East German authorities to stop the flow of refugees from east to west; demolition of the wall began in 1989
  • berlin wool — a fine wool yarn used for tapestry work, etc
  • bersagliere — a member of a rifle regiment in the Italian Army
  • berylliosis — a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium
  • beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
  • bestridable — capable of being bestridden
  • bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
  • biauricular — having two auricles.
  • bible paper — a thin tough opaque paper used for Bibles, prayer books, and reference books
  • bible story — a story from the Bible
  • bibliograph — to put in a bibliography.
  • bibliolater — someone who reveres the Bible
  • bibliolatry — excessive devotion to or reliance on the Bible
  • big-leaguer — Sports. a player in a major league.
  • bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
  • bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
  • bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
  • bill broker — a person whose business is the purchase and sale of bills of exchange
  • billionaire — A billionaire is an extremely rich person who has money or property worth at least a thousand million pounds or dollars.
  • billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
  • bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
  • bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
  • binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
  • binary file — (file format)   Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • bioelectric — of or having to do with electrical energy in living tissues
  • biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
  • biometrical — pertaining to biometry
  • bioregional — relating to a bioregion
  • bipyramidal — relating to a symmetrical structure consisting of two pyramids
  • biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
  • birth canal — the passageway down which the fetus passes during birth
  • birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
  • bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
  • bitter pill — a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow): Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.
  • black birch — sweet birch.
  • black friar — a Dominican friar
  • black ivory — Black slaves collectively
  • black maria — a police van for transporting prisoners
  • black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
  • blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
  • bladderlike — resembling a bladder
  • bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
  • blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
  • bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
  • blind tiger — speak-easy
  • blind trust — A blind trust is a financial arrangement in which someone's investments are managed without the person knowing where the money is invested. Blind trusts are used especially by people such as members of parliament, so that they cannot be accused of using their position to make money unfairly.
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
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